Thilo Dahlmann, Hedayet Djeddikar - The Last Epiphany (2023)

Tracklist

01. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 30, All mein Gedanken
02. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 25, Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund
03. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 12, Feinsliebchen
04. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 11, Jungfräulein, soll ich mit Euch gehen
05. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 5, Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr
06. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 2, Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen
07. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 1, Sagt mir, o schönste Schäf´rin mein
08. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 41, Es steht ein Lind´
09. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 3, Gar lieblich hat sich gesellet
10. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 3, Sonntag, Op. 47
11. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 16, Wach auf, Mein´ Herzensschöne
12. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 36, Es wohnet ein Fiedler zu Frankfurt am Main
13. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 42, In stiller Nacht
14. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 17, Ach Gott, wie weh tut scheiden
15. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 35, Soll sich der Mond nicht heller scheinen
16. Deutsche Volkslieder WoO 33: No. 6, Da unten im Tale
17. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 1, Im Gefängnis
18. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 2, Abschied
19. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 3, Fur Ule
20. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 4, Alter Baum
21. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 5, Nachtgedanken
22. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 6, Der Ofen von Lublin
23. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 7, Versprich mir eins
24. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 8, Die letzte Epiphanie
25. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 9, Lied zur guten Nacht
26. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 10, Greta
27. In Memoriam – Holocaust Lieder: No. 11, An die Völker der Erde
28. Abendstern D. 806



Baritone Thilo Dahlmann couples the innocence and beauty of Brahms' Volkslieder with the the despair and mourning of Glanzberg's Holocaust Lieder.
Thilo Dahlmann and Hedayet Djeddikar. "I sow, I see no seed, and I remain mournfully silent at home." With these words of Johann Mayerhofer full of mourning and melancholy from Schubert's "Abendstern", we as performers look back on the content of this CD. It juxtaposes compositions that could hardly be more opposite. The past century, like so many before and after it, has not only sown good seeds. Norbert Glanzberg had to experience one of the greatest human catastrophes of the century himself, the Holocaust. Long after the end of the war, he managed to clothe the horror he suffered in music through the words of other persecutees and victims of National Socialism. Music that could not be more beautiful in many places. A beauty that is only painful to bear in view of the texts set to music.

In selecting the pieces for this recording, we were guided by Norbert Glanzberg's compositional approach of countering horror with beauty. Therefore, folk song settings by Johannes Brahms form the beginning of this CD. Songs that, like few other songs in the Romantic lied repertoire, can embody the greatest possible innocence and impartiality in text and music.

It is precisely this contrast that illustrates in our eyes the breaking of human and civilisational culture through the horrors of the Holocaust. A "break-up" that Norbert Glanzberg has masterfully set to music in his cycle "In Memoriam".

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