When Night Falls

by Kirchschlager,Angelika

Overview

This collection of songs loosely defined as lullabies, featuring the warm, expressive voice of mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager and dedicated to her young son Felix, is a model of creative and eclectic programming. WHEN NIGHT FALLS is far from simply being a "Greatest Lullaby Hits" compilation, though it does include some old favorites. The program ranges from the lieder of Schubert, Brahms (including, of course, his famous 'Wiegenlied') and Zemlinsky, to folksong arrangements by Canteloube, Haydn, de Falla and Copland, while opening and closing with excerpts from Sondheim musicals. The tempos are predominantly slow and restful, with lilting, cradle-rocking rhythms frequently present, but variety is provided in the form of multiple national styles and diverse accompaniments: piano, of course, but also guitar or strings on several tracks. Yuri Bashmet joins in for Brahms' two ravishing songs with viola, matching the tenderness of Kirchschlager's own performance, and John Williams provides sensitive guitar accompaniment on de Falla's 'Nana' and elsewhere. Given the folk or popular origins of many of the songs here, the Broadway strains of Sondheim do not sound out of place, and Kirchschlager brings as much of her accomplished technique and style to these songs as to everthing else in this lovely recital.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/02/1999
Label:	Sony Music Distribution / Sony Classical
UPC:	0074646449820
Rank:	247037

Tracks

1. Sweeney Todd, musical play~Not While I'm Around
2. The Sound of Music, musical~Edelweiss
3. Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut Nacht"), song for voice & piano, Op. 49/4
4. Gestillte Sehnsucht ("In goldnen Abendschein"), song for alto, viola & piano, Op. 91/1
5. Geistliches Wiegenlied ("Die ihr schwebet"), song for alto, viola & piano, Op. 91/2
6. Wiegenlied ("Wie sich der ¿¿uglein kindlicher Himmel"), song for voice & piano, D. 867 (Op. 105/2)
7. Sandm¿¿nnchen ("Die Bl¿¿melein sie schlafen"), folk song for voice & piano, WoO 31/4
8. The Consul, opera~Mother's Aria
9. Brezairola (Berceuse), folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 3, No. 4)
10. O¿¿ Aya¿¿ (Oh! yaya¿¿), folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 4, No. 2)
11. Ar hyd y nos ("What avails thy plaintive crying"), folk song for 2 voices, violin & keyboard, H. 31b/9
12. Sehnsucht nach dem Fr¿¿hling ("Komm, lieber Mai"), song for voice & piano, K. 596
13. La¿¿ mich schlummern, song for voice & guitar (for Kotzebue's drama "Der arme Minnesinger"), J. 112 (Op. 25/3)
14. Popular Spanish Songs (7), for voice & piano, G. 40~5. Nana (Berceuse)
15. Cancione de cuna para dormir a un negrito (Crade Song for a Black Baby)
16. The Little Horses, song for voice & piano (Old American Songs II)
17. Cantiga de Nimar (Baby's Goodnight Song)
18. S¿¿¿¿e, s¿¿¿¿e, Sommernacht, for voice & piano
19. Wiegenlied ("Schlafe, schlafe, holder s¿¿sser Knabe"), song for voice & piano ("Mille Cherubini in Coro"), D. 498 (Op. 98/2)
20. Into the Woods, musical play~Stay With Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Angelika Kirchschlager   Primary Artist,Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Gillian Tingey   Harp
David Daniels   Cello
Andrew Brown   Viola
Cathy Thompson   Violin
Johnathan Rees   Violin
John "Buddy" Williams   Guitar
Helmut Deutsch   Piano
Jonathan Rees   Violin
London Metropolitan Ensemble   Ensemble
Roger Vignoles   Piano
Yuri Bashmet   Viola
John Williams   Guitar

Technical Credits

Joyce Tenneson   Photography
Richard Haney-Jardine   Text Translation,Editorial Director
Andy Granger   Technician
Jackson Braider   Liner Notes
Laura Torres   Package Design
Michelle Errante   Product Manager
Gian Carlo Menotti   Text
Joseph Canteloube   Composer
Grace Kristopher Row   Producer
Idefonso Pereda Valdes   Text
Matthew Gregory Lewis   Text
Menai Davies   Language Coach
Tobi Corney   Photography
Friedrich Rueckert   Text
Jeremy Caulton   Executive Producer
Laura Kszan   Editorial Production
Michel Vallat   Language Coach
Johann Gabriel Seidl   Text
Marcelo Bratke   Language Coach
Emanuel Geibel   Text
Ellen Hitton   Editing Engineer
Thomas W. Van Ess   Text Translation
Aissa Lynx   Text
Chika Azuma   Package Design
Christian Adolf Overbeck   Text
Susanne Schmidt   A&R
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Composer
Paul Zinman   Producer
Grace Row   Producer
Charles Harbutt   Post Production Engineer
Miguel Kertsman   Text,Composer,Text Translation
Stephen Sondheim   Text,Composer
Angelika Kirchschlager   Liner Notes
Aaron Copland   Composer
Johannes Brahms   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Text
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Allen Weinberg   Art Direction