Valerie Eickhoff - Eisler:Songs Hollywood Songbook - Import CD

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Valerie Eickhoff

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Hans Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook Includes Hans Eisler: The Son Son/ On a little radio/ In the willows/ Spring/ The pantry 1942/ Fugitives/ Suicide. Escape/ 4,000 inscriptions, of those who sank in the Norwegian sea in the battle/ Epitaphs of those who died in the battle of Ypres/ Proverbs/ Easter Sunday/ Cherry thief/ Hotel room 1942/ The mask of the devil / Two songs in the words of Pascal. The last elegy/ Proverbs of winter/ Five Elegies/ Nightmare/ Hollywood Elegy No. 7 Treasure digging/ Tank Battle/ Autumn in California/ The Anacreon Fracture/ Recollections of Eichendorff and Schumann/ Helderlin's Chapter/ The Human/ Watering the garden/ Homecoming/ Landscape in exile/ Poem by Rambo/ On the night of the assault Performers. Valery Eickhoff (mezzo-soprano), Eric Schneider (Piano) *Recorded February 13-14 & August 7-9, 2023, Hans Rothbout Studio, Baden-Baden, Germany A collection of Hans Eisler's songs by Valerie Eickhoff, a rising star mezzo-soprano born in Germany in 1996. The collection includes many songs with references to philosophy and antiquity, as well as themes such as pacifism, flight, and exile in the poetry of Bertolt Brecht, with whom Eisler collaborated. (Tokyo M Plus)