Franz Schubert may have been aware of this when he composed the art song of the same name. And he wasn't the only one, for hasn't this insight been present for many centuries? Art, especially music, has also addressed this theme: the unfulfilled, rejected, disappointed, and deeply hurt love of a woman for a man. Thus, the suffering woman represents, so to speak, the leitmotif of this CD, in which Katja Stuber and Boris Kusnezow have recorded a program that is daring and even provocative in its compilation, introducing and establishing this leitmotif in Schubert's work, and subsequently varying it in two further interpretations by Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
Stuber and Kusnezow took this programmatic risk because they can! On this CD, they demonstrate their incredible stylistic versatility and their broad repertoire, which they interpret with complete conviction. In doing so, they literally burn down the sometimes almost dogmatic performance practice and prove that stylistic boundaries are and should be fluid.
1 The Distinction Op. 95 No. 1
2 Laughter and Crying
3 First loss
4 The Echo
5 The men are méchant
6 Romance
7 The Drunken Dancer
8 Like Saint Francis I float in the air
9 Dream
10 My ears are sitting on the stairs
11 Before you I seem to have awakened
12 You make me sad - listen
