Barbara Bonney Angelika Kirchschlager Malcolm Martineau Abschiedslied der Zugvögel

Описание: Barbara Bonney

My relationship with Angelika Kirchschlager goes back many years. When I was singing the solos on Sunday mornings in the Franziskanerkirche in Salzburg. Angelika was a girl of 12 years, singing in the choir! We made our careers, and finally got to sing on the professional stage together. We have always had so much fun together, so I decided to ask her if she wanted to make a recording of German romantic duets. I spent a year researching all of the duet repertoire, and chose my favourites, including the Morovanian duets, which are of course the centerpiece of the recordings.


Angelika Kirchschlager

I have known Barbara Bonney practically since my time as a college student in Salzburg. We really got to know each other well about 6-7 years ago on a concert tour. At that time we both wanted to realize a project together. This makes it all the nicer that we have now completed this wonderful recording. The nicest thing about duets is that you dont just sing with one another but actually sing simultaneously. With us you can say that both the souls and voices fit together.

Malcolm Martineau

Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St. Catherines College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music. He is now amongst the worlds
leading accompanists. He appears throughout Europe, North America, the Far East and Australasia with many of the worlds greatest singers and records widely for the major recording companies.

First Encounter

Abschiedslied der Zugvögel
(Farewell Song of the Migrants),
F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Oh how lovely were the woods and fields!
How sad the world is now!
The beautiful summertime is gone,
And after joy came sorrow.

We knew nothing of pain,
We sat under the leafy canopy
Content and joyful in the sunshine,
And sang out into the world.

We poor birds mourn so,
We no longer have a home,
We must now flee from here,
Into the wide unknown.

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