Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Drang in die Ferne, D 770
Der Schiffer, D 536
Dass Sie hier gewesen, D 775
Die Schöne Müllerin, D 795 (extraits)
Versunken, D 715
Du bist die Ruh, D 776
Erstarrung, extrait de Winterreise, D 911 n° 4
Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300
Willkommen und Abschied, D 767
Der Fischers Liebesglück, D 933
Auf dem Strom, D 943

Mélodies populaires d'Islande
Fagurt er i fjördum
Tunga min vertu treg ei a
Stodum tvo i tuni
Sofdu unga astin min
Vögguvisa, op. 14 n° 2 (comp. Jon Leifs)
Kysstu mig, hin mjuka maer
BLastarnan
Island farsaelda fron

Benedikt Kristjansson, ténor
Tilmann Höfs, cor
Alexander Schmalcz, piano

It sounds like being in a dreamland when Icelandic tenor Benedikt Kristjánsson sings folksongs from his homeland. For his first Genuin CD, the first-prize winner of the Greifswald International Singing Competition and Audience Award winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition has teamed up with the sought-after accompanist Alexander Schmalcz. Schmalcz congenially tunes into in Kristjánsson's nebulous landscapes when the singer juxtaposes the old melodies, sung a cappella, with Schubert's Romanticism. A different language, a different time—but the same feelings and human destinies! Full of deep earnestness, a fine sense of sound and artistic unanimity: a moving duo!