With her first two albums, Ms. Mühlemann established her reputation
as a rising opera star and concert singer. In 2016, the young Swiss
soprano impressed with Mozart Arias (she won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik with her debut album). In her following album, Cleopatra,
Ms. Mühlemann performed arias by Handel and Vivaldi brilliantly and was
awarded an Opus Klassik for it. On her third album she presents herself
as an artistically expressive Lieder singer with a rich repertoire.
Born and residing in Switzerland, the musician has dedicated a large
part of her new album, Lieder der Heimat, to unknown Swiss composers, along with well-known works by Franz Schubert.
As the album title suggests, the themes of home, nature, hiking, farewell and longing form the leitmotif
of the programme, which Mühlemann recorded with her long-standing
accompanist Tatiana Korsunskaya. It was clear to the interpreter from
the start that Franz Schubert would play an essential role in this:
“Schubert’s settings show that home and nature are inseparably linked.
That the image of nature evokes a strong sense of homeland in people, no
matter where they come from”. For the clarinet part in the famous “Der
Hirt auf dem Felsen”, Daniel Ottensamer, solo clarinettist of the Vienna
Philharmonic joined her, and Konstantin Timokhine, solo hornist with
the Basel Chamber Orchestra, plays in “Auf dem Strom”.
The romantic and late romantic works in all four Swiss national
languages have largely been recorded for the first time. Some of these
songs were probably only now sung again since their creation. They are
penned by the following Swiss composers: Wagner friend Wilhelm
Baumgartner, Othmar Schoeck, Richard Flury, Emil Frey, Richard Langer,
Friedrich Niggli, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion and Walther Geiser. The
“Old Guggisberger song” is one of the most famous Swiss folk songs.
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