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SongStudio 2024 Part One (S4 | E166)

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SongStudio 2024 Part One (S4 | E166)

Art Song in the 21st Century

I’ve been to the musical mountaintop… now two years in a row. Renee Fleming’s SongStudio concluded a week ago. I attended again this year and was just as impressed as I was last year with the music, teaching talent, and expertise of the singers. Never has a vocal masterclass been so accessible and marvelous – I just have to believe.

Art Song

An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition. By extension, the term “art song” is used to refer to the collective genre of such songs (e.g., the “art song repertoire”). An art song is most often a musical setting of an independent poem or text, “intended for the concert repertory” “as part of a recital or other relatively formal social occasion”. While many vocal music pieces are easily recognized as art songs, others are more difficult to categorize. For example, a wordless vocalise written by a classical composer is sometimes considered an art song and sometimes not.

Some of the Musical Talent at this Year’s Event

Show Playlist: SongStudio 2024 Part One

Song	Artist	Album	Year
Nacht und Träume, D. 827	Franz Schubert, Renée Fleming, Christoph Eschenbach	Schubert Lieder – Ave Maria; Die Forelle; Heidenröslein; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Dr Tod und das Mädchen	1997
Standchen	Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau	Schwanengesang	1990
Sehnucht D. 636	Franz Schubert, Matthias Goerne, Elisabeth Leonskaja	Schubert: Sehnucht	2008
Cantique	Natia Boulanger, Golda Schultz, Jonathan Ware	The Be Her Verse	2022
3 Balladen, Op. 1 No. 3. Erikonig	Carl Loewe, Andrea Meláth, Emese Virág	Goethe Lieder – Settings of Erikonig, Gretchen Am Spinnrade, and Gretchen’s Ruhe	2014
The House of Life: IV. Heart’s Haven	Ralph Voughan Williams, Benjamin Luxon, David Willison	Benjamin Luxon Sings Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel & The House of Life	1986
Rückert-Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen	Gustav Mahler, Jessye Norman, Irwin Gage	Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Rückert-Lieder / Schubert: Lieder	1972