{"product_id":"alice-lackner-antheil-songs-cd","title":"Alice Lackner - Antheil: Songs [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Antheil (1900-1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, and inventor known for his radical musical style and innovative spirit. Often dubbed the \"Bad Boy of Music,\" Antheil made his mark in the early 20th century with bold compositions that challenged traditional norms, combining dissonance, mechanical rhythms, and experimental instrumentation. He was particularly fascinated with the intersection of technology and music, a theme that permeated his work-including his infamous Ballet Mecanique (1924), a piece originally scored for synchronized player pianos, airplane propellers, and sirens.Antheil's songs are lesser-known yet deeply compelling.. These vocal works, written across various periods of his career, present a more intimate and lyrical side of the composer. Though far removed from the explosive energy of his orchestral and piano music, his songs retain his signature wit, rhythmic precision, and inventive harmonies. They often set texts by poets such as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and other literary modernists, reflecting Antheil's deep engagement with contemporary intellectual circles.The Songs reveal the evolution of Antheil's musical language-from the early Dadaist-influenced miniatures to more mature, expressive works marked by greater emotional depth and nuance. They bridge European modernism and American innovation, merging cabaret, classical lieder, and jazz idioms. Praised for her voice, described as \"seductively confident, with an astral top register and penetrating power\" (Oper!) and \"utterly enchanting\" (Tagesspiegel), the young mezzo-soprano Alice Lackner has swiftly captivated audiences in many of the world's leading classical music stages. She worked with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and it's chief conductor, Vladimir Jurowski, as well as with the lautten compagney Berlin. She has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin andthe Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, while in the field of historically informed performance, she has worked with leading baroque ensembles, including Ensemble 1700 (under the direction of Dorothee Oberlinger), L'Orfeo and La Banda. Philip Mayers is an Australian pianist of great versatility, enjoying a reputation as a sought-after chamber music partner, accompanist, vocal coach, and pianist, the latter especially in the field of New Music, where he has been involved in the premieres of more than one hundred new works. His concert performances have taken him to leading festivals such as Montreux, Aldeburgh, La Roque d'Antheron, La Folle Journee (Nantes), Schleswig-Holstein and Kissinger Sommer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Songs after Adelaide Crapsey~I. November Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Songs after Adelaide Crapsey~II. Triad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Songs after Adelaide Crapsey~III. Suzanna and the Elders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Songs after Adelaide Crapsey~IV. Fate Defied\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Songs after Adelaide Crapsey~V. The Warning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~I. The Garden of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~II. A Poison Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~III. The School Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~IV. The Sick Rose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~V. The Little Vagabond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~VI. I Told My Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~VII. I Laid Me Down Upon a Bank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~VIII. Infant sorrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNine Songs of Experience~IX. The Tyger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNightpiece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSchlafe, mein Kindlein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAch, meines kleines Mädchen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~I. The Vision of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~II. Down by the Sally Gardens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~III. The Sorrow of Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~IV. Lightning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~V. I Hear an Army (fragment)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs~VI. An End Piece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrankie and Johnny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFable of the Redwoods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBallade of Jesse James\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Songs~I. You Are Old, Father William\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Songs~II. Turtle Soup\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFünf Lieder~I. Morgenrot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFünf Lieder~II. Auf Urlaub bin ich gegangen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFünf Lieder~III. Wenns Dibbe aber nu e Loch hat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFünf Lieder~IV. Was braucht ma auf an Bauerndorf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFünf Lieder~V. Lippe-Detmold, eine wunderschöne Stadt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBequest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Odes of Keats~I. Ode to a Nightingale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Odes of Keats~II. 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