Songs to the Distant Beloved

GEORG POPLUTZ, tenor
HILKO DUMNO, piano

Beloved song cycles by Beethoven and Schumann are combined with songs by Schubert, some of which are seldom heard. Georg Poplutz and Hilko Dumno team up in sensitive and powerful interpretations of these works, giving us an intense emotional experience.

Release: Octobre 2017

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FRANZ SCHUBERT
01 Die Mainacht, D 194
02 Sehnsucht, D 879
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827): An die ferne Geliebte, op. 98
03 Auf dem Hügel sitz’ ich spähend
04 Wo die Berge so blau
05 Leichte Segler in den Höhen
06 Diese Wolken in den Höhen
07 Es kehret der Maien
08 Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder
FRANZ SCHUBERT
09 Im Frühling, D 882
10 Als ich sie erröthen sah, D 153
11 Geisternähe, D 100
12 Abendlied für die Entfernte, D 856
13 Lied der Liebe, D 109
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 – 1856): Dichterliebe, op. 48
14 Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
15 Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
16 Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube
17 Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’
18 Ich will meine Seele tauchen
19 Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
20 Ich grolle nicht
21 Und wüßten’s die Blumen, die kleinen
22 Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
23 Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen
24 Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
25 Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
26 Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
27 Allnächtlich im Traume
28 Aus alten Märchen
29 Die alten, bösen Lieder
FRANZ SCHUBERT
30 An den Mond, D 193
31 Im Abendroth, D 799

Total Time / Gesamtspielzeit: 71:27

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

P+C 2017 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-16153
EAN: 4260130381530

ARTISTS

Georg Poplutz

As a singer of lieder and oratorios, Georg Poplutz is well-known for his expressive and emotional interpretations. In 2009 he was awarded the Frankfurt Mendelssohn Special Prize for “his outstanding achievements in concert singing”. He has a special interest in lieder and for more than 15 years he has worked closely with pianist Hilko Dumno.
Poplutz has appeared at important festivals, concert halls, and churches, both in Germany and abroad. He also performs with musicians such as Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Manfred Cordes, Ludwig Güttler, Vaclav Luks, Rudolf Lutz, Hermann Max, Ralf Otto, Michael Schneider, Winfried Toll, Michael A. Willens, and Roland Wilson. Poplutz is also in demand as an ensemble singer and has sung in the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble of Arno Paduch, as well as in Konrad Junghänel’s Cantus Cölln. As a soloist, Poplutz is also a major contributor to the Heinrich Schütz Complete Recorded Edition with Hans-Christoph Rademann. Many radio and DVD recordings, as well as more than 60 compact discs, stand as testimony to his valuable contribution as an artist.
In 2014, Spektral released Poplutz’ recording of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with Antje Asendorf (romantic guitar) and Stefan Hladek (quint bass guitar), who transcribed the piano part for two guitars.
After completing degrees in Music Education and English in Münster and Dortmund, Georg Poplutz studied singing in Frankfurt and Cologne where his professors included Berthold Possemeyer, Rainer Hoffmann, and Christoph Prégardien. Poplutz received support through the Menuhin Live Music Now program and since 2010 he has received vocal advice from Carol Meyer-Bruetting.
Georg Poplutz, born in Arnsberg, lives as well as his piano-partner, in Frankfurt.

Hilko Dumno

Hilko Dumno was born in Westfalen, Germany and studied piano at the University of Music in Münster/Detmold with Gregor Weichert. He continued with post-graduate work in chamber music and art song at the University of Music and the Arts in Frankfurt am Main, where he studied with Rainer Hoffmann, Eugen Wangler, and Tabea Zimmermann. Dumno has received financial support from the Deutscher Musikrat as well as the Vill Musica in Mainz.
Dumno works regularly with musicians such as Tanja Baungartner, Hedwig Fassbender, Julia Kleiter, Henriette Meyer-Ravenstein, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Hans Jörg Mammel, Georg Poplutz, and Christoph Prégardien. As their piano partner, he has appeared at the Amadeus Festival in Genf, the Dresden Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, the Schwetzinger Festival, and the Styriarte in Graz. He has also performed in the opera La Monnaie in Brussels, as well as at the Frankfurt and Cologne opera houses.
Concert tours have taken him as far afield as the United States and Japan.
Dumno has also been heard on radio broadcasts and has recorded two CDs of lieder and ballades by Schubert and Schumann (with Johannes Martin Kränzle), a CD of music by Liszt entitled “Songs of Joy and Sadness” (with Hans-Jörg Mammel), “Lieder of Love and Death” by Richard Strauss (with Hedwig Fassbender), as well as Hugo Wolf’s “Italian Song Book” (with Julia Kleiter and Christoph Prégardien).
Hilko Dumno teaches instrumental coaching and art song performance at the Music University in Frankfurt. Before this he worked as an instructor at the Cologne Music University. In addition to these activities, he also gives masterclasses in Germany, Italy, and France. Since 2014, Dumno has been the artistic director of “Lieder im Holzfoyer” at the Frankfurt Opera, featuring singers from that opera house.