Hidden Treasure Christian Immler & Helmut Deutsch

• Hans Gál (1890 - 1987):
• 1 Gál: Lady Rosa 01:52
• 2 Gál: Nacht 02:44
• 3 Gál: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 1 02:26
• 4 Gál: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 2 02:05
• 5 Gál: Nachts in der Kajüte No. 3 02:35
• 6 Gál: Sternenzwiesprach 01:13
• 7 Gál: Denk' es o Seele 01:41
• 8 Gál: Maimond 02:38
• 9 Gál: Minnelied 01:41
• 10 Gál: Morgengebet 02:39
• 11 Gál: Dämmerstunde 02:35
• 12 Gál: Glaube nur! 01:29
• 13 Gál: Liebesmüde 02:50
• 14 Gál: Eine gantz neu Schelmweys 03:11
• 15 Gál: Waldseligkeit 01:52
• 16 Gál: Der Wolkenbaum 02:05
• 17 Gál: Novembertag 02:31
• 18 Gál: Welch ein Schweigen 02:58
• 19 Gál: Nachtstürme 01:24
• 20 Gál: Blumenlied 02:47
• 21 Gál: Schäferlied 01:32
• 22 Gál: Abendlied 02:21
• 23 Gál: Der böse tag 01:26
• 24 Gál: Frag nicht! 02:18
• 25 Gál: Rücknahme 02:06
• 26 Gál: Abendgespräch 01:41
• 27 Gál: 5 Songs, Op. 33: No. 1, Vergängliches 02:23
• 28 Gál: 5 Songs, Op. 33: No. 2, Der Wiesenbach 01:38
• 29 Gál: 5 Songs, Op. 33: No. 3, Vöglein Schwermut 03:50
• 30 Gál: 5 Songs, Op. 33: No. 4, Drei Prinzessinnen (Version for Voice & Piano) 02:50
• 31 Gál: 5 Songs, Op. 33: No. 5, Abend auf dem Fluss (Version for Voice & Piano) 02:13
• Total Runtime 01:09:34

Info for Hidden Treasure

Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except for the five songs of Op. 33, these were never published, and Gál himself would later refer to them as ‘laid aside’. Many of these songs were publicly performed at the time, however, often with the composer at the piano. Through the initiative of Christian Immler and Helmut Deutsch, 26 of the ‘laid-aside’ songs are now being made available to a modern audience. A labor of love for the performers, the project has had the support of the composer’s family – in fact the recording was produced by Hans Gál’s grandson, Simon Fox-Gál. The songs provide a missing link in Gál’s creative development, and show him engaging with a wide variety of poets, extending back from the twelfth-century (Walther von der Vogelweide) to contemporaries, such as Hermann Hesse and Richard Dehmel, by way of the classics (Heine, Mörike). Reflecting a taste for the exotic which was fashionable at the time, the selection also includes settings of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. The performers close their recital with the Op. 33 set, the only songs that Hans Gál did publish during his long career.

Christian Immler, baritone
Helmut Deutsch, piano

Christian Immler
From the Tölzer Knabenchor as a boy alto soloist to singing as a baritone at major concert halls, festivals and opera houses, German baritone Christian Immler has spent many years making and recording music of the highest quality all around the world. He studied with Rudolf Piernay and won the International Nadia et Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris. Christian has worked with such conductors as Harnoncourt, Minkowski, Rousset, Herreweghe, Bolton, Harding, Nagano, Conlon, Parrott, Corboz, Suzuki, Pichon, Dantone, Antonini, Reuss, Hengelbrock, Bernius, Christie and Alarcón performing at places such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Salzburg, Aix and Lucerne Festivals and the BBC Proms. On stage he appeared at Opéra Comique Paris, at the Grand Théâtre Genève, at New Israeli Opera and at the Boston Early Music Festival. A keen recitalist, Christian has been invited to perform at the Wigmore Hall, the Frick Collection in New York, the Paris Philharmonie, the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Tonhalle Zurich, the latter with pianist Helmut Deutsch with whom he released the album entitled Modern Times.

His more than 50 recordings have been awarded prizes such as the Echo Klassik, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, several Diapason d’Or, Diamant d’Opéra, France Musiques’ Enregistrement de l’année and a 2016 Grammy Nomination. Much in demand for worldwide masterclasses, Christian is Professor of Voice at the Kalaidos Fachhochschule in Zurich.

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