Mikhail Timoshenko & Elitsa Desseva - Erdmann: Lieder (2024)

Although few of Eduard Erdmann’s Lieder from the years up to 1918 were published, they occupy an important place in the public perception of the young composer. The influence on the impulsive young composer of his role models Schumann and Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss, cannot be denied – and yet his songs also point to something new. It is to be regretted that a number of Erdmann’s early Lieder, quoted in an undated handwritten list (“12 Lieder by various authors”), have been lost or destroyed.

The music critic Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, who addressed himself in his essay “Neue Lieder” (Melos 1/1920) to the art-song repertoire of his time, observed that since Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder it had seemed almost impossible to write anything singable. There are accordingly few composers whose Lieder Stuckenschmidt recognizes as sufficiently distinctive to earn praise in his article: these are the fifteen Schoenberg songs from Stefan George’s “Buch der hängenden Gärten” (op. 15), the four Lieder op. 2 by Alban Berg, and works by Karl Horwitz, Karol Szymanowski, Manfred Gurlitt – and Eduard Erdmann.

Tracklist
01. 5 Lieder, Op. 7: No. 3, Sommer
02. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 3, Nachtwanderung
03. 5 Lieder, Op. 7: No. 4, Der Vogel
04. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 4, Kornblumen wind ich dir zum Kranz
05. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 1, Septembermorgen
06. Himmel und Erde, Op. 8
07. 2 Lieder, Op. 11: No. 1, Der Engel
08. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 4, Tehuras Lied
09. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 6, Lied
10. 2 Lieder, Op. 11: No. 2, Es gilt fast mehr
11. Herbstlied für Kinder
12. Dezemberfrühe
13. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 1, Lied vom Meer
14. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 2, Aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
15. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 3, Rückkehr
16. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 4, Der wunde Ritter
17. 5 Lieder, Op. 15: No. 5, Aus einer Sturmnacht
18. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 1, In himmelblauer Ferne
19. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 5, Die Insel der Glücklichen
20. 4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 2, Seidenschuhe auf goldnem Spann
21. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 3, Venedig
22. 6 Lieder, Op. 3: No. 2, Vorfrühling