Georg Streuber - Lieder von Richard Wagner, Vasyl Barvinsky und Richard Strauss (Seel an Seele) (2024)

The focus of this CD production is the Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky, whose six selected songs, surrounded by well-known masterpieces by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, enter into a productive dialogue with them. In 1948, the composer, who was then a professor at the Lvov Conservatory (now Lviv, Ukraine), was arrested and his works were subsequently banned and largely destroyed. Afterwards he and his work fell into oblivion. This CD recording of some of his songs is intended to bring the important artist back to life. The rarely recorded version of the Wesendonck songs for a low voice can also be considered remarkable.