Be Still My Heart

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Diese CD präsentiert Werke von zwei wenig bekannten Wiener Komponisten. Der in der Schweiz geborene Robert Gund (1865-1927), ein in Wien hoch angesehener Pianist, Lehrer und Komponist, und der jüngere Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939), der zum Zeitpunkt von Gunds Tod in Berlin sehr erfolgreiche Songs für das Kino schrieb. Grosz emigrierte 1934 zunächst nach England, 1939 dann in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo seine Musik sowohl von der Postromantik als auch vom Jazz beeinflusst wurde.

Be Still My Heart presents works by two little-known Viennese composers. Robert Gund (1865-1927), born in Switzerland, a pianist, teacher and composer who was highly regarded in Vienna but whose works have since been forgotten, and his younger brother Wilhelm Grosz (1894-1939), who was writing highly successful songs for the cinema in Berlin at the time of Gund's death. Grosz then emigrated to the United States in 1939, when his music became influenced by both post-Romanticism and jazz. This programme, conceived and performed here by Christian Immler and Helmut Deutsch, both masters of the German Lied, includes many songs that are recorded for the first time. Grosz's New York songs have inspired many cover versions by such 20th-century musical greats as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and the Beatles.