Title: Gast: Lieder Artist: Elena Galvan Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060113447067 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-03-07 Number of Discs: 1
The composer Peter Gast (1854-1918) - real name Heinrich Koselitz - is best remembered as a friend and posthumous editor of Friedrich Nietzsche rather than for his own music, which was kept under lock and key in communist East Germany for half a century; only recently has it begun to be performed and recorded. 'Il faut mediterraniser la musique', Nietzsche argued, and Gast's Lieder, in a reaction against Wagnerian gloom, do just that, singing of love, life, springtime, drinking and youthful ardour; even the more wistful songs have a spring in their step.
