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Songs Without Words
Release Date: November 16, 1999
SK66511
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Grammy Award-winning artist Murray Perahia returns to the romantic keyboard music which originally won him acclaim. In the wake of his overwhelming critical success of the music of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, he now makes the piano sing with Liszt's transcriptions of Schubert's haunting lieder, Busoni's revisiting of Bach, and a selection of pieces by Mendelssohn from the work which inspired this album.

The release of Songs Without Words comes on the heels of Perahia's award-winning foray into the keyboard music of J.S. Bach with his recordings of the composer's English Suites. Perahia's recording of the English Suites Nos.1, 3 and 6 (SK 60276) won a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance as well as Classic CD magazine's award for Best Instrumental Disc of 1998. The remaining English Suites Nos. 2, 4 and 5 (SK 60277) were released in January 1999.

In addition to the Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Perahia also plays four solo transcriptions by Mendelssohn's contemporary Franz Liszt of well-known lieder by Franz Schubert: "Auf dem Wasser zu singen", "Erlkonig", and from the collection known as Schwanengesang, "In der Ferne" and "Standchen".

Track listing for CD Longplay

1 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, No. 2, BWV 645 (Instrumental)
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2 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, No. 3, BWV 659 (Instrumental)
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3 Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, No. 4, BWV 734 (Instrumental)
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4 Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, No. 5, BWV 639 (Instrumental)
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5 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19, No. 3 (Instrumental)
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6 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67, No. 2 (Instrumental)
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7 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 30, No. 4 (Instrumental)
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8 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19, No. 1 (Instrumental)
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9 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19, No. 5 (Instrumental)
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10 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 30, No. 6 (Instrumental)
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11 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 38, No. 3 (Instrumental)
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12 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 102, No. 5 (Instrumental)
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13 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 38, No. 2 (Instrumental)
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14 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 30, No. 2 (Instrumental)
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15 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67, No. 1 (Instrumental)
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16 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 38, No. 6 (Instrumental)
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17 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 67, No. 4 (Instrumental)
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18 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 53, No. 4 (Instrumental)
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19 Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 62, No. 2 (Instrumental)
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20 Auf dem Wasser zu singen [No. 2 from 12 Lieder]
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21 In der Ferne, No. 6 from Liszt's Schwanengesang (Instrumental)
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22 Ständchen ¿Leise flehen meine Lieder¿ [No. 7 from Schwanengesang (Chant du Cygne)]
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23 Erlkönig [No. 4 from 12 Lieder] (Instrumental)
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