Be Still My Heart

Grosz, Wilhelm, Gund, Robert

Deutsch, Helmut, Immler, Christian

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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.

Works:

•Robert Gund: Drei Zigeuner
•Robert Gund: Julinacht
•Robert Gund: Die Straßen, die ich gehe
•Robert Gund: Schön Rotraut
•Robert Gund: Tanderadei
•Robert Gund: Die Nachtigall
•Robert Gund: Landschaft im Spätherbst
•Robert Gund: Ein Traum; ei ist ein Flüstern in der Nacht
•Robert Gund: Abendständchen "Hör, er klagt"; Wanderschaft
•Robert Gund: Der einsame Pfeifer
•Robert Gund: Im Zimmer; Das Schifflein
•Robert Gund: Volksweise; Lass rauschen, Lieb, lass rauschen"
•Robert Gund: Sehnsucht; Auf einer Burg
•Robert Gund: Nachts; Studentenfahrt
•Wilhelm Grosz: Helle, sommerliche Nacht
•Wilhelm Grosz: Liebeslied
•Wilhelm Grosz: Dich, dich liebe ich
•Wilhelm Grosz: Es ist Nacht
•Wilhelm Grosz: Du allein
•Wilhelm Grosz: Schicksal
•Wilhelm Grosz: Wenn ich ein Dichter wäre
•Wilhelm Grosz: Das Singen deines Munds
•Wilhelm Grosz: Und doch
•Wilhelm Grosz: The Red Maple Leaves
•Wilhelm Grosz: Candles in the Sky
•Wilhelm Grosz: You are my Song
•Wilhelm Grosz: Lonesome Gondolier

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4.03.2025

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