Monolog der Maria Stuart Tobias Schabenberger & Franziska Hirzel

• Johann Zumsteeg (1760-1802):
• 1Monolog der Maria Stuart05:44
• Carl Loewe (1796-1869): Lied der Konigin Elisabeth, Op. 119:
• 2Lied der Konigin Elisabeth, Op. 11904:06
• Gesang der Konigin Maria Stuart auf den Tod Franz'II:
• 3Gesang der Konigin Maria Stuart auf den Tod Franz'II03:29
• Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882): Maria Stuart, ein Zyklus von Gesangen, Op. 172:
• 4Klage I02:52
• 5Klage II01:40
• 6Klage III01:55
• 7Klage IV02:17
• 8Maria Stuart's Abschied von Frankreich02:11
• 9Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes05:23
• 10Vor dem Gang zum Schaffot03:48
• 11Abschied von der Welt02:29
• 12Gebet02:32
• Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Gedichte der Konigin Maria Stuart, Op. 135:
• 13No. 1, Abschied von Frankreich01:35
• 14No. 2, Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes01:26
• 15No. 3, An die Konigin Elisabeth01:40
• 16No. 4, Abschied von der Welt02:36
• 17No. 5, Gebet01:35
• Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Seven Lieder for Queen Mary:
• 18Seven Lieder for Queen Mary03:44
• Horatio William Parker (1863-1919): Queen Mary's Song Cycle:
• 19Queen Mary's Song Cycle02:29
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Les adieux de Marie Stuart:
• 20Les adieux de Marie Stuart07:41
• Total Runtime01:01:12

Info for Monolog der Maria Stuart

The fateful life of the Mary, Queen of Scots1542 – 1687) has inspired many works of literature, music, and visual arts. Her life masterly appertained as tragedy material due to the wealth of spectacular events. In the German-speaking area, the drama “Maria Stuart” from 1800 by Friedrich Schiller significantly contributed to the popularity of the figure.

Mary had become Queen shortly after she was born, grew up in safe France, and became Queen of France on Francis’ II side in 1559 when she was 16 years old. Only one year later Francis II died and Mariy had to involuntarily return to Scotland. This turning point of her life and the emotional parting with France were preferentially taken up by poets and composers. Back in Scotland, the Catholic Queen got into conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. Her second husband, her cousin Henry Lord Darnley murdered her lover Rizzio and was also killed in an assault a short while later. It was never proven beyond doubt if Mary Stuart was a part of it, but she lost her last allies in Scotland because of the quick marriage with the lead suspect Bothwell. Even the resignations in favor of her son, Jakob VI., born in 1566, didn’t help. In 1568, Mary Stuart ed to England to look for help from Queen Elisabeth. As a direct descendant of Heinrich VII., Maria Stuart was entitled to the English throne herself, which she didn’t refrain from throughout their lives. So Elisabeth had to fear her as a rival, especially because herself from second marriage invalid to the Catholic Church. Mariy Stuart spent the last 19 years of her life in an English captivity. Her contribution to a conspiracy against Elisabeth eventually led to charges against her because of high treason and to the execution in 1587. Mary Stuart’s spectacular life situations were gladly taken up in poetry and music. The present recording gives an overview of the scorings of the 19th

Franziska Hirzel, soprano
Tobias Schabenberge, piano

Franziska Hirzel
has performed on many European stages as well as at the Salzburg Festival, Holland Festival, and Flanders Festival, Beethoven International Festival in Bonn, Prague Autumn Festival, Brno, Bratislava and Rheingau Music Festival. Her extensive concert and opera repertoire ranges from Rameau to contemporary composers. The soprano’s cooperation as Eurydice with Pina Bausch in a production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice took her to the Opèra Garnier in Paris and to the Teatro Carlo Fenice in Genova. The French first performance of Manfred Gurlitt’s Wozzek, in which she played the part of Marie, was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique. She also sang this role in the Italian first production at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Hirzel has performed on a number of CD productions, including a recording of Schönberg’s Moses und Aron with the Concertgebow Orkest under Pierre Boulez, a release of Krenek’s Karl V on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth and in cooperation with the Beethoven International Festival in Bonn and the recording of Britten’s «Illuminations» under Roman Kofman with the Kiev Chamber Orchestra. The latest recordings are «Wagner and his contemporaries» (bmn20134), the 2nd stringquartet f-sharp minor by Alban Schoenberg with the Arditti Quartet(bmn20142) and the world premiere of the song-cycle «Lorca» by the swiss composer Jost Meier (bmn20155).

Tobias Schabenberger
studied Piano at the Music Universities in Stuttgart and Bern. He studied for 5 years with the renowned Italian pianist Bruno Canino. For the best Soloist Diplom in the year 1997 he won the «Eduard Tschumi Price» in Bern. He continued as assistant of Bruno Canino and teacher of fortepiano at the Music University in Bern. In 2003 he transferred to the Music Academy in Basel, where he teaches Piano, Chambermusic and Fortepiano.

He won several prices and is having a rich career as a chamber musician. He performed in concerts with singers like Kurt Widmer, Hans-Jörg Rickenbacher or Céline Wasmer and with instrumentalists like Hans Heinz Schneeberger, Thomas Demenga, Peter Hörr, Omar Zoboli, Christoph Ess, François Benda, the Gémeaux Quartet, the Cuarteto Gerhard and further more. On the Fortepiano he performed regularly with the famous baroque violinists Chiara Banchini and Daniel Sepec.

He recorded for German and swiss Radio and Television and was invited to Festivals like Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Biennale di Venezia, Musikfestwochen Passau, Festival de Besançon, Festival de Rougemont and others. He was invited for lectures and concerts in 2012 to the WEF in Davos representing cultural leaders of Switzerland and gave Masterclasses in Germany, Austria and Spain.

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