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Franui & Florian Boesch
Die schöne Müllerin |
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Das Wandern |
02:41 |
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Wohin? |
02:16 |
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Halt! |
01:36 |
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Danksagung an den Bach |
02:15 |
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Der Neugierige |
04:29 |
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Ungeduld |
02:28 |
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Morgengruß |
04:01 |
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Des Müllers Blumen |
03:51 |
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Tränenregen |
04:08 |
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Mein! |
01:53 |
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Pause |
05:43 |
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Mit dem grünen Lautenbande |
02:24 |
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Der Jäger |
01:37 |
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Eifersucht und Stolz |
03:01 |
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Die liebe Farbe |
04:47 |
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Die böse Farbe |
02:10 |
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Trockne Blumen |
03:30 |
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Der Müller und der Bach |
04:08 |
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Des Baches Wiegenlied |
07:10 |
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Total Time |
01:04:08 |
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| Digital Booklet - only with album |
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| About the project |
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The Musicbanda Franui, in their capacity as a “transformer station between classical music, folk music, jazz and contemporary chamber music”, have always been interested in the German-language art song, in terms of both where it comes from (folk music), and where it belongs (in music history): from Schubert, Schumann and Mahler to the 21st century. In 2023 Franui, in league with Florian Boesch, their perfect partner in crime, realized their first complete lied cycle: the Schöne Müllerin, and performed it live on stage at the Berlin State Opera.
Other than the Winterreise or Schumann’s “Liederkreise”, Schubert’s first major collection of lieder tells a story: a young journeyman falls in love with the miller’s beautiful daughter, but in the end has to accept that she prefers the handsome hunter. In this version, though, different from traditional interpretations, the journeyman does not take his own life. Indeed, Schubert the master of weltschmerz is no less a cliché than Schubert the king of the landler, to whom posterity attributed a healthy relationship with his native land, with nature, and with love. Boesch and the Franuis deftly avoid such preconceived ideas. In the Berlin performance, one critic noticed “astonishing rhythms” and references to Weill, klezmer and modernism, while another review described it as a “chamber play in the spirit-world”. This recording is an opportunity to experience the dialogue with, and in, the spirit of Schubert as audio theater. |
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| Florian Boesch |
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Considered one of the great lied interpreters of our time, Austrian baritone Florian Boesch has performed in the most renowned concert halls of Europe and North America. He has been Artist in Residence at Wiener Konzerthaus, Teatro de la Zarzuela, MusikTheater an der Wien, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Since making his debut at the Zurich Opera House, Florian Boesch has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Hamburg State Opera, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Nederlandse Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Berlin State Opera and Vienna State Opera, among others. He has enjoyed particular success at the MusikTheater an der Wien, most recently with Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Handel’s Saul and Orlando, and Berg’s Wozzeck. His debut as Duke Bluebeard in a new production of Bártok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, directed by Claus Guth at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, garnered considerable acclaim.
Boesch has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Teodor Currentzis, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Iván Fischer, Philippe Herreweghe, Pablo Heras-Casado, Vladimir Jurowski, Mariss Jansons, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Simon Rattle and Lorenzo Viotti.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt was a frequent collaborator of Florian Boesch. Among their final projects together were Handel’s Saul at the Vienna Musikverein, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the styriarte festival in 2014. Their notable performances at the Salzburg Festival included Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten.
Boesch’s recordings have received international acclaim and numerous awards; Die schöne Müllerin was nominated for a Grammy, while his recording of Schumann and Mahler lieder, released by Linn Records, was honored with the BBC Music Magazine Award.
Florian Boesch had his first singing lessons with KS Ruthilde Boesch. During his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, he attended the Lied and Oratorio class with KS Robert Holl. Since 2015, Florian Boesch has held a professorship for Lied and Oratorio at the same university. |
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| Musicbanda Franui |
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Franui is the name of a mountain pasture close to the small village of Innervillgraten, located at 1,402 meters above sea level in East Tyrol in Austria, where most of the Franui musicians grew up. The word is of Rhaeto-Romanic origin and refers to the proximity of Innervillgraten to the Ladin-speaking region in the Dolomite Alps.
The Musicbanda of the same name have been playing together in nearly the same lineup since 1993 and are frequently invited to perform at major festivals and venues (e. g. Wiener Konzerthaus, Burgtheater Wien, Salzburg Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Ruhrtriennale, Berlin State Opera, Isarphilharmonie München, Philharmonie Köln, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Schauspiel and Staatsoper Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Holland Festival, Klarafestival Brussels, Opera Lyon, Philharmonie de Paris).
Their new interpretations of lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Mahler have earned Franui renown beyond the borders of Austria. The ensemble regard themselves as a “transformer station between classical music, folk music, jazz and contemporary chamber music”; sometimes the original is lovingly celebrated in all its beauty, at others it is turned upside up (or down), stripped down to its bare bones, enhanced, painted over, elaborated, in a process that blurs the boundaries between interpretation and improvisation, between arrangement and (re)composition.
For their live shows and music theater productions Franui frequently collaborate with other exceptional performers, including baritone Florian Boesch, puppeteer Nikolaus Habjan, the Wienerlied duo Die Strottern, the mask theater ensemble Familie Flöz, the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, video artist Jonas Dahlberg, filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge, the Austrian Kabarett artists Maschek, the Circa circus artists, as well as many renowned actresses and actors.
Since 2015 Franui are in charge of programming the festival “Gemischter Satz” hosted by Wiener Konzerthaus each year in May, which presents new forms of interaction between music, art, literature and wine.
Franui’s recordings are released with the label col legno and have won several prizes (e. g. the German Record Critics’ Award). On the occasion of their thirtieth anniversary the Musicbanda hosted a three-day “Hoch Kultur Festival” (“High Culture Festival”), which drew some 6,000 visitors to the Unterstaller Alm (1,673 meters above sea level) in Innervillgraten.
In September 2024 Musicbanda Franui’s and actor Nicholas Ofczarek’s joint adaptation of Thomas Bernhard’s novel Holzfällen premiered with great success at the Burgtheater in Vienna. |
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