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Konrad Jarnot (baritone) & Alexander Schmalcz (piano) Konrad Jarnot has already earned great praise for his recordings of songs by Mozart, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, Ravel, Duparc, Strauss and Hermann Zilcher. With this recording of Die Schöne Müllerin, he now begins a series of the great Schubert cycles. | 
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore |
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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) & Helmut Deutsch (piano) Rising tenor superstar Jonas Kaufmann tackles one of Schubert’s finest song cycles. Kaufmann has established himself as the most successful and versatile tenor of his generation, attracting rave reviews for his live performances and recordings. This new album is his third recital disc on Decca, following his acclaimed debut album ‘Romantic Arias’, followed by ‘Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner’. “He has burst upon the international scene as a fully mature, major artist. And "artist" with Kaufmann means the full deal...” (Gramophone) “ I doubt that Schubert’s cycle, purely in vocal terms, has been more thrillingly sung on disc since Fritz Wunderlich...[Kaufmann's] diction and eloquence in German is immaculate [...] This version of Schubert’s masterpiece [is] one of the most compelling in recent years.” Sunday Times, 24th January 2010 ***** “One of the greatest accounts of Die Schöne Müllerin on disc...It's big in scale: Kaufmann's soft singing is exquisite, but his voice isn't small and there are moments when he and Deutsch really let rip in their quest for expressive veracity...Not for the faint-hearted, but highly recommended.” The Guardian, 11th February 2010 ***** “an interpretation solidly centred on a simple and powerful emotional arc. Unlike some singers, Kaufmann doesn’t darken the narrative from the beginning, a decision that only enlarges the devastation wrought by the hero’s journey from bliss to despair.” The Times, 19th February 2010 **** |
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Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano) With Die schöne Müllerin the singer has to free himself from the role of neutral observer and identify with the character of the traveller. Matthias Goerne is supreme in this repertoire, with the acute awareness that disappointment, melancholy and death wish are at the end of the road. The third volume in a Schubertian venture which has already created quite a stir. “this latest Die schöne Müllerin is a benchmark both in Goerne’s own career, and in the catalogue. For each recording so far, Goerne has chosen a different pianist. This time, the hugely experienced
Christoph Eschenbach underwrites the authority and compelling thoughtfulness of this performance from the very start.” BBC Music Magazine *****/***** “…Eschenbach underwrites the authority and thoughtfulness of this recital from the start. Here is a highly introverted youth, intimately and fatally communing with nature. …Goerne is playing to the strengths of his own voice: its hushed, focused pianissimo, its matchless legato, and its vivid rhythmic articulation.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 ***** “…a profoundly considered, deeply felt Schöne Müllerin, freer in expression, more varied in colour than Goerne's Decca recording.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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plus bonus: The story behind the cycle - interviews with Christoph Prégardien
Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano) Christoph Prégardien is one of the most established singers of our time. He has especially excelled in his interpretations of German Romantic Lieder and won Orphée d'Or der Académie du Disque Lyrique - Prix Georg Solti, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Edison Award, Cannes Classical Award and Diapason d'Or for these interpretations, easy to understand when one hears his controlled, beautifully-phrased yet emotional and tender singing. Prégardien states, himself, that he believes that the listener is important for the development of material and one can feel how much he enjoys the intimate setting of this concert - which is not unlike the original setting in which Schubert, amidst his friends, created and developed the pieces. Michael Gees and Christoph Prégardien have been working together for a long time and one can feel their strong musical connection. Beautifullighting and filming complete this highly appealing production. The bonus documentary is based on interviews with Christoph Prégardien and allows us truly understand the intellectual and musical basis of Prégardien's work, his approach to Schubert whilst offering us many gripping facts about Schubert's life and work. "His lyric tenor voice had a youthful glow, yet he sang with plaintive beauty and piercing insight." The New York Times "The result is an incredibly gripping night full of pieces with which both musicians have clearly worked physically as well as mentally until they were ideal in form, colour, size and texture." Stuttgarter Zeitung “The variety of gently paced and mixed camera shots is never distracting, and the performance is lit to perfection. There are three encores, giving a glimpse into Pregardien's no less revelatory approach
to Schubert's Schwanengesang. And the excellent 25-minute bonus interview includes Pregardien both relaxed and succinct in revealing something of the psychology within the narrative and his own
performance; a brief examination of Schubert's sexuality and the emotional Zeitgeist of his time; and a justification of ornamentation as part of Pregardien's own ever-evolving performance practice.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 5/5 “Prégardien's baritone-like tenor has the customary spring in its step… But watching rather than merely listening also reveals the human gestural minutiae within the nerve system of a performance which is so sensitively tailored by both Prégardien and his pianist, Michael Gees, to every second of Schubert's score. Throughout the recital, the variety of gently paced and mixed camera shots is never distracting, and the performance is lit to perfection. In the excellent 25-minute bonus interview here Prégardien is both relaxed and succinct as he reveals something of the psychology within the narrative and his own performance.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Werner Güra (tenor) & Jan Schultsz “In spite of the many excellent recorded versions of this song-cycle, there is always room for a new one as revelatory as this from Werner Gura. He has the most beautiful voice among German tenors since the legendary Fritz Wunderlich.” Daily Telegraph | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Christoph Eschenbach A film by Bruno Monsaingeon | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Richard Crooks sings Opera Arias and SongsRecordings from 1918-1967
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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