Lieder

Word LIEDER
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Lieder"

What do we mean by lieder?

An art song, sung in German and accompanied on the piano.

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The word "lieder" in example sentences

Mentoring has been key to Eschenbach's art; he's built up a long list of artists whom he has "discovered" or championed, and with whom he regularly performs: Fleming; the enfant-terrible pianist Lang Lang (whose debut Eschenbach led at Ravinia); the controversial pianist and polymath Tzimon Barto; the star baritone Matthias Goerne (whom Eschenbach has often accompanied in lieder recitals); and the violinist Jennifer Koh. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Why are some Brahms or Schubert songs titled lieder and others gesange. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Days of delicious dreaming were these, -- days of roaming on the emerald green turf under the stately and odorous pines, listening to the dash of the waterfalls, or watching the crimson sunset burning redly through the darkness of the branches, -- and in the moonlit evenings sitting under the trees to hear the entrancing music of a Hungarian string-band, which played divine and voluptuous melodies of the land, -- "lieder" and ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Gerhaher has made much of his career as a singer of "lieder" or art songs, and it showed in his crisp diction and an ability to vary his sound from a hushed whisper to a climactic high note with no loss of tonal purity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In that sense, Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and the Song is a beautiful re-introduction to the poet, who wrote the lyrics and gave music to all his 2,200 songs in the genre of 'lieder' music, a feat rare even in the West. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After this debut in the now somewhat esoteric genre of lieder, you could call Jonas Kaufmann the thinking woman's tenor. ❋ Rodney Punt (2011)

Christmas saw the release of Mr. Hampson's superb recording of Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" "The Youth's Magic Horn", a series of enchanting lieder with orchestral accompaniment — Mahler also wrote a version with piano — based on folk verses collected by the early 19th-century German poets Clemens Brentano and Ludwig Achim von Arnim. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

Last Friday at the Chandler Pavilion, the German tenor took a break from his dramatic roles on stage for his United States debut as a lieder recitalist. ❋ Rodney Punt (2011)

The melody is simple enough, but the arrangement by guitarist Sebastian Cruz and bassist Stomu Takeishi colors each phrase a little bit differently, bringing out a prism of harmonic possibilities and taking us into the realm of lieder. ❋ Michal Shapiro (2011)

Austrian baritone Florian Boesch is the latest – and among the most successful to date – of the younger generation of lieder singers to tackle Winterreise. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Queen's Hall morning series, a favourite Edinburgh tradition, had opened with a strong, if at times uneven all-Mahler recital by Danish baritone Bo Skovhus and pianist Stefan Vladar, which gave insight into the composer's span of lieder writing from Nine Early Songs to "Der Abschied" from Das Lied von der Erde in the composer's own piano and voice version, lost until 1989. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It influenced lieder composers like Franz Schubert and Karl Loewe, poets Wilhelm M ü ller and Heinrich Heine, and culminated, if you will, with Mahler. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

They were too short for that, too spiky, more Bartok folk song than Schubert lieder. ❋ Marko Fong (2011)

Austrian composer who bridged the worlds of Classical and Romantic music, noted for the melody and harmony in his songs (lieder) and chamber music. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the economy of means he used when singing lieder – when everyone in the room knew the drama he was capable of – was astonishing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gunter's songs are akin to classical lieder, with a certain martial air early on as he describes his dedication to his work. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

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