Tief von fern (deep from a distance)

MARIE SEIDLER -soprano
GÖTZ PAYER – piano

“Deep in the distance” is the unifying title for this recording of songs in three different languages by five composers.  In their illuminating performances, Marie Seidler and Götz Payer conjure up a world of death, loss, and longing. The art of the song at it’s finest!

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JOHANNES BRAHMS, Zigeunerlieder Op. 103
01 He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten
02 Hochgetürmte Rimaflut
03 Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen
04 Lieber Gott, du weißt
05 Brauner Bursche führt zum Tanze
06 Röslein dreie in der Reihe
07 Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn
08 Rote Abendwolken ziehen

09 Dein blaues Auge op. 50 Nr. 8
10 Unbewegte laue Luft op. 57 Nr. 8

ANTON V. WEBERN
11 Nachtgebet der Braut
12 Tief von fern
13 Aufblick
14 Sommerabend

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK, aus Im Volkston, Op. 73
15 Gute Nacht
16 Die Mäherin
17 Klage
18 Besitz und Verlust

HUGO WOLF, aus dem spanischen Liederbuch
19 Schmerzliche Wonnen und wonnige Schmerzen
20 Bedeckt mich mit Blumen
21 Sagt ihm, dass er zu mir komme
22 In dem Schatten meiner Locken

MANUEL DE FALLA, Siete canciones populares Españolas
23 El paño morunu
24 Seguidilla Murciana
25 Asturiana
26 Jota
27 Nana
28 Canciòn
29 Polo

Deutscher Text (36 Seiten)
Texts in english (36 pages)

P+C 2020 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-21187
EAN: 4260130381875

ARTISTS

Marie Seidler

The German mezzo-soprano Marie Seidler completed her “Konzertexamen” in Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Hedwig Fassbender. Before she graduated at the Royal Academy of Music in London with distinction. 2018 the German “Opernwelt” nominated her as young artist of the year. From 2016 – 19 she was part of the ensemble at Stadt-theater Gießen. Her roles include Flora (G. Verdi’s La Traviata), Annio (Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito), Olga (P.I. Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin), Dorabella (Mozart’s Così fan tutte), Cherubino (Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro), Bostana (P. Cornelius’ Der Barbier von Bagdad) et al. Oberon by C.M. v. Weber and the operetta Herbstmanöver by E. Kálmán were recorded by the German label “Oehms Classic”.
Guest engagements have taken her to several opera houses, such as Staats-theater Mainz, Opera Frankfurt am Main, as well as Opera Aachen. 2019/20 she returned to Staatstheater Mainz as Fjodor in Mussorgskis opera Boris Godunow. 2019 she sang the title role in Händel’s Ottone at the Early Music Festival in Innsbruck. 2020/21 she gave her debut as “Sesto” in W.A. Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.
Marie Seidler is a prize winner of the international Hugo Wolf competition in Stuttgart and recipient of the Trude-Eipperle-Rieger prize. She also holds a scholarship of the Richard-Wagner-Stiftung. In 2013 she was selected as a young artist at the Britten-Pears-Festival in Aldeburgh.
She established herself as a welcome guest on the concert podium, including performances at King’s place, at the Händel Festival in London under the guidance of Laurence Cummings, at the Schleswig-Holstein festival, at the Boulez Saal et al. She sang extracts of G. Mahler’s Knaben Wunderhorn Lieder in Nancy (France) with the Orchestre Lyrique and was invited to the Eppaner song festival under the patronage of Brigitte Fassbaender as well as to the Schubertìada in Barcelona and Vilabertran together with Wolfram Rieger. 2020 she gave her debut at the “Schubertiade” festival in Hohenems.
www.marie-seidler.de

Götz Payer

Götz Payer’s musical education began during his time as a member of the “Stuttgarter Hymus-Chorknaben” boys’ choir. Having later studied literature and philosophy, he went on to study piano and Lied interpretation at the Lübeck and Zurich universities of music under Konrad Elser and in Irwin Gage’s master class.
Payer has performed with more than 50 singers, including Mojca Erdmann, Ulrike Sonntag, Sarah Wegener, Sibylla Rubens, Helene Schneiderman, Seda Amir-Karayan, Angela Brower, Marie Seidler, Cornelius Hauptmann, Andreas Weller and James Wagner. His chamber music partners include The King’s Singers and the Amaryllis Quartet. Concerts have taken him to festivals and venues in Europe, Asia and the US, and he has been the accompanist for over 30 CD productions. In addition, Payer has given master classes in France, Italy, Russia and Germany and he lectures in Lied interpretation at Cologne and Frankfurt universities of music.

www.goetzpayer.de