Elina Garanca – When Night Falls … – CD

This intimate album, says Elīna Garanča, is meant for “that time of day when you withdraw to your own private life”. The celebrated mezzo has selected songs to help her listeners “tune out the world for two or three minutes and immerse themselves in the special magic of the evening hours”. Joined here by an array of distinguished instrumentalists, Garanča performs traditional songs as well as vocal nocturnes by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Humperdinck and several composers from Spain and her beloved Latvian homeland.

1 Strauss, Richard (1864 – 1949) Wiegenlied “Träume, träume du, mein süsses Leben” op. 41 Nr. 1
2 Humperndinck, Engelbert (1854 – 1921) Abendsegen “Abends will ich schlafen gehen“ (aus: Hänsel und Gretel)
3 de Falla, Manuel (orch. by Ernesto Halffter, 1905 – 1989) No. 3 Asturiana (from: Siete canciones populares españolas)
4 Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 – 2022) Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (Version for Mezzosoprano and Guitar)
5 Berio, Luciano (1925 – 2003) No. 2 “I wonder as I wander” (from: Folksongs)
6 Berio, Luciano (1925 – 2003) No. 3 “Loosin Yelav…” (from: Folksongs)
7 Tosti, Francesco Paolo (1846 – 1916) Sogno (Arr. Guillaume Bleton for Mezzo Soprano and Guitar)
8 José María Gallardo del Rey (*1961) Nana Criolla
9 José María Gallardo del Rey (*1961) Canción de cuna
10 Raimonds Pauls (*1936) Mersedesa (Version for Mezzosoprano, Guitar and Piano) [Grafs Monte Kristo]
11 Brahms, Johannes (1833 -1897) Wiegenlied „Guten Abend, gut’ Nacht „ (Arr. Tarkmann)
12 Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879-1951) Aijaija
13 Zalit pelits velc miedcinu Jānis Zālīts (1884-1943) Kindchens Schlaflied
14 Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879-1951) Wiegenlied
15 Schubert, Franz (1797 – 1828) Nacht und Träume, D. 827
16 Raimonds Pauls (*1936) No. 8, Vientuļais Namiņš (Version for Mezzosoprano and Piano) [Mazs, laimīgs zēns (“Little Happy Boy”)]
17 Raimonds Pauls (*1936) Aicinajums (Version for Mezzosoprano and Piano)
18 Latvian Folk Song Aijā žūžū lāča bērni