Eisnacht (Ice Night)

Songs by Jewish Composers

Pia Viola Buchert Mezzo-soprano
Tatjana Dravenau piano

Tonmeister: Johannes Endl
Recording: Mendelssohn-Saal, Gewandhaus Leipzig, 2025

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GEN 26948 EAN 4260036259483

Release 6.2.2026Offer until 28.2.26
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This new GENUIN release brings a forgotten chapter of music history back into focus: songs by Jewish composers born between 1890 and 1924, whose lives were profoundly altered by persecution and exile. Mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert and pianist Tatjana Dravenau perform works by Walter Arlen, Ursula Mamlok, Hans Gál, Ruth Schonthal, Felix Wolfes, and Viktor Ullmann – six musical voices whose creativity continued to resonate despite oppression and loss. The recording unites deep emotional intensity with refined expression and remarkable stylistic variety. It spans a broad arc—from cultural vitality and inquisitive modernity to pain, silencing, and remembrance—allowing this music to sound at once newly rediscovered and timeless.

Pia Viola Buchert Mezzo-soprano
Tatjana Dravenau piano

Tonmeister: Johannes Endl
Recording: Mendelssohn-Saal, Gewandhaus Leipzig, 2025

link to PDF booklet

This new GENUIN release brings a forgotten chapter of music history back into focus: songs by Jewish composers born between 1890 and 1924, whose lives were profoundly altered by persecution and exile. Mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert and pianist Tatjana Dravenau perform works by Walter Arlen, Ursula Mamlok, Hans Gál, Ruth Schonthal, Felix Wolfes, and Viktor Ullmann – six musical voices whose creativity continued to resonate despite oppression and loss. The recording unites deep emotional intensity with refined expression and remarkable stylistic variety. It spans a broad arc—from cultural vitality and inquisitive modernity to pain, silencing, and remembrance—allowing this music to sound at once newly rediscovered and timeless.

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Tracklist

  1. Walter Arlen (1920–2023)
    Five Songs of Love and Yearning
    I. O Living Flame of Love
  2. II. Shepherds, You Who Wander
  3. III. Upon a Night of Darkness
  4. Ursula Mamlok (1923–2016)
    Four German Songs
    Über die Felder
  5. September
  6. Schmetterling
  7. Nachtgefühl
  8. Hans Gál (1890–1987)
    Fünf Melodien, Op. 33
    No. 1: Vergängliches
  9. No. 2: Der Wiesenbach
  10. No. 3: Vöglein Schwermut
  11. No. 4: Drei Prinzessinnen
  12. No. 5: Abend auf dem Fluß
  13. Ruth Schonthal (1924–2006)
    Wildunger Liederzyklus Bd. I: Ingrids Lieder
    No. 1: Eine rote Rose
  14. No. 2: Von einer weißen Rose
  15. No. 6: Manchmal
  16. Felix Wolfes (1892–1971)
    Eisnacht
  17. Felix Wolfes
    Gelbe Rose
  18. Felix Wolfes
    Vergiß, vergiß
  19. Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944)
    Drei jiddische Lieder, Op. 53
    No. 1: Berjoskele
  20. No. 2: Margaritkelech
  21. No. 3: A Mejdel in die Johren

link to PDF booklet

This new GENUIN release brings a forgotten chapter of music history back into focus: songs by Jewish composers born between 1890 and 1924, whose lives were profoundly altered by persecution and exile. Mezzo-soprano Pia Viola Buchert and pianist Tatjana Dravenau perform works by Walter Arlen, Ursula Mamlok, Hans Gál, Ruth Schonthal, Felix Wolfes, and Viktor Ullmann – six musical voices whose creativity continued to resonate despite oppression and loss. The recording unites deep emotional intensity with refined expression and remarkable stylistic variety. It spans a broad arc—from cultural vitality and inquisitive modernity to pain, silencing, and remembrance—allowing this music to sound at once newly rediscovered and timeless.