Title: Songs & Piano Quartets
Artist: Marie Luise Werneburg
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203548620
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-01-30
Number of Discs: 1

"To the singer of the valley" is etched on a memorial stone for the composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann. It would be hard to pay him a more fitting tribute. Three dozen operas; nearly two dozen masses; Italian oratorios; a wealth of German sacred music; as well as a fair amount of chamber music - the man from Blasewitz near Dresden, who enjoyed success at the Royal Swedish Opera before settling permanently in his hometown, knew more than just how to sing on stage and in church.His collections of songs for voice and piano are full of little gems that any of the muses would have fought over. Marie Luise Werneburg and her accompanist Sebastian Knebel have compiled just such a programme here: tastefully interwoven with three small-scale quartets, the songs transport the listener to intimate salons where domestic music-making grew into an increasingly powerful medium.

Tracks:
1.1 An Die Sonne
1.2 Ich
1.3 Quartet No. 1 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in C Major-Andante
1.4 Quartet No. 1 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in C Major-Tempo Di Minuetto
1.5 Clavier
1.6 Dissonanzen
1.7 An Die Freude
1.8 Sprung
1.9 An Eine Junge Freundin
1.10 Freundschaft
1.11 An Den Schlaf
1.12 Quartet No. 5 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in E Flat Major-Andante
1.13 Quartet No. 5 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in E Flat Major-Grazioso
1.14 Ideale
1.15 Quartet No. 6 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in F Major-Allegro
1.16 Quartet No. 6 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in F Major-Andante Dell'ipocondriaco
1.17 Quartet No. 6 for Piano, Flute, Violin ; Violoncello in F Major-Presto
1.18 Vom Tode
1.19 Elegie
1.20 Nur Wer Die Sehnsucht Kennt
1.21 Seufzer
1.22 Nachtgesang