Neue Detmolder Liedertafel - Habet acht! Songs for Male Voices by Robert Schumann

Title: Habet acht! Songs for Male Voices by Robert Schumann Artist: Neue Detmolder Liedertafel Release Date: 2004 Label: MDG Duration: 58:39 Album Type(s): performer(s) biography, Special essay (music history, styles, etc.), composition (work) description, lyrics/libretto UPC: 760623131627 Genre: Choral Music Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Der träumende See
2. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Die Minnesänger
3. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Die Lotosblume
4. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Der Zecher als Doktrinär
5. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Rastlose Liebe
6. Part songs (6) for men's voices, Op. 33
   - Frühlingsglocken
7. Jagdlieder (5), part songs for male voices & 4 horns (Laube), Op. 137
   - Zur hohen Jagd
8. Jagdlieder (5), part songs for male voices & 4 horns (Laube), Op. 137
   - Habet Acht!
9. Jagdlieder (5), part songs for male voices & 4 horns (Laube), Op. 137
   - Jagdmorgen
10. Jagdlieder (5), part songs for male voices & 4 horns (Laube), Op. 137
    - Frühe
11. Jagdlieder (5), part songs for male voices & 4 horns (Laube), Op. 137
    - Bei der Flasche
12. Part songs (3) for male voices, Op. 62
    - Der Eidgenossen Nachtwache
13. Part songs (3) for male voices, Op. 62
    - Freiheitslied
14. Part songs (3) for male voices, Op. 62
    - Schlachtgesang
15. Deutscher Freiheitsgesang ("Der Sieg ist dein, mein Heldenvolk!"), part song for male voices (Freiheitsgesänge), WoO 15
16. Schwarz-Rot-Gold ("Im Kümmernis und Dunkelheit"), part song for male voices (Freiheitsgesänge), WoO 13
17. Zu den Waffen ("Vom Angesicht"), part song for male voices (Freiheitsgesänge), WoO 14
18. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - Die Rose stand im Tau
19. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - Lasst Lautenspiel und Becherklang
20. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - Blüt' oder Schnee
21. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - Gebt mir zu trinken
22. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - Zürne nicht des Herbstes Wind
23. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - In Sommertagen rüste den Schlitten
24. Ritornelle (8) in canonischen Weisen, for male chorus, Op. 65
    - In Meeres Mitten ist ein offner Laden

Here's a lost musical form if ever there was one: songs for male chorus. While the form was explored in the early nineteenth century by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, among others, it had fallen into disuse by the middle of the century, nearly vanished by the end of the century, and became virtually forgotten by the early twentieth. The main reason for its disappearance was that the ensemble for which it was intended had disappeared. German men, who had once loved going down to the village bar and to drink themselves into a stupor while singing choral drinking songs, had found other ways to amuse themselves. But, in their day, songs for male chorus, while surely not a threat to the aesthetic hegemony of solo songs, were a popular form, and its almost complete disappearance is a small but palpable aesthetic loss.

This disc by the Neue Detmolder Liedertafel directed by Thorsten Roth goes some small way toward redressing that loss. With a rich tone and a superlative ensemble, the Liedertafel's singing is beyond reproach, and, as guided by Roth, its interpretations are affectionate and enthusiastic. All the songs on this disc are heartwarming, especially the Ritornelle on poems by Friedrich Rückert, but most appealing to the initiated may be five Jagdlieder of Heinrich Laube, the only songs on the disc with accompaniment. And what an accompaniment: four horns, masterfully played by the Detmolder Hornisten, evoking the joys and mysteries of the hunt and the forest. Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm's sound is, as it always is, absolutely real. ~ James Leonard, All Music Guide

Name Credits Dr. Irmlind Capelle Editing Fabian Rabsch Photography Heinrich Heine Text Holger Schlegel Recording Supervision Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Text Julius Mosen Text Neue Detmolder Liedertafel Choir, Chorus Reimund Grimm Producer Robert Reinick Text Susan Marie Praeder Liner Note Translation Sylvie Gomez Liner Note Translation Thomas Synofzik Liner Notes Thorsten Roth Conductor Werner Dabringhaus Producer