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+bonus DVD interviews with Goerne and Metzmacher Matthias Goerne has received worldwide praise for his warm, fluid baritone and his profound interpretations. Highly respected as a Lieder singer, he is a frequent guest at renowned festivals and prestigious venues like the New York Carnegie Hall and London Wigmore Hall. Famous pianists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach and Elisabeth Leonskaja are among his musical partners. From 2008 to 2011, Matthias Goerne will perform and record the most beautiful songs by Franz Schubert on eleven CDs for Harmonia Mundi, and important venues including the Wigmore Hall will present the complete series of eleven Schubert recitals with Matthias Goerne in the coming seasons. "It's a journey any singer would leap at: Matthias Goerne is travelling through Schubert's songs with a new recording contract and a series of live recital bookings as far as the eye can see. It's invaluable for a singer in mid-career. " The Times “In volume four of Goerne’s Schubert edition, the song selection is still skewed towards the introspective and forlorn. Those moods are perfect for Goerne’s dark baritone...and, always, the elegantly responsive piano of Ingo Metzmacher, better known as a conductor. The pair seem very simpatico.” The Times, 28th November 2009 **** “Although there are moments when the angst within Schubert's responses to Mayrhofer and the vanished gods could be more biting, Goerne has the measure of the noble declamation of these unique songs. When it comes to the Goethe settings, Goerne excels at recreating the uncanny metaphysical stillness of 'Meeresstille', and of the D224 'Wandrers Nachtlied'. And his final Mayrhofer 'Abschied', taken as slowly as is humanly possible, becomes a valediction of wide spaces and eloquent silences.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2010 **** “This is a simply unmissable recital, and for two prime reasons - the grave beauty of its programme and the corresponding beauty of the singer's voice. These songs of yearning, essentially spiritual, are very personal, and the imagination never shuts down. The pianist, Ingo Metzmacher, is fully responsive to this, and the recorded sound, of both voice and piano, is warm and vivid.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 “The two selections from Heliopolis telescope intimate, personal dramas and larger public spectacle to bewitching effect, Goerne’s lightly burnished baritone liquescently surging and seething against the pointed accompaniment of Ingo Metzmacher...Throughout, Goerne and Metzmacher suffuse these songs with a dark, yearning poetry to discreetly powerful and wholly persuasive effect.” Michael Quinn, bbc.co.uk, 18th December 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Schubert - The WandererLieder and Fragments
Schubert: | Viola, D786 (Schober) Pilgerweise D789 (Schober) An die Musik D547 New Track Auf der Bruck, D853 Tiefes Lied D876 Der liebliche Stern, D861 (Schulze) Der Wanderer, D649 (Friedrich von Schlegel) Fülle der Liebe D854 (F von Schlegel) Wiedersehn D855 (A W von Schlegel) Vom Mitleiden Maria D632 (Schlegel) Im Walde D708 Der Schmetterling D633 Harfenspieler I 'Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt', D478 Harfenspieler II 'An die Türen will ich schleichen, D479 Harfenspieler III 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass', D480 Die Sterne, D939 (Leitner) Der Winterabend (Es ist so still), D938 Der Unglückliche, D713 Totengräbers Heimwehe D842 (Craigher) Auf dem Strom, D943, Op. post. 119 with Timothy Brown (horn) Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889 New Track Lachen und Weinen, D777 New Track An die Laute D905 New Track Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531 New Track Pflicht und Liebe D467 (Gotter) Allegretto, D900 in C minor Piano Fragments (From Schubert: Piano Sonata D958 – 094638432128) Lebensmuth, D937 Piano Fragments (From Schubert: Piano Sonata D958 – 094638432128) Allegretto, D346 in C major Piano Fragments (From Schubert: Piano Sonata D958 – 094638432128) Johanna Sebus (Fragment), D728 Andantino, D348 in C Major Piano Fragments (From Schubert: Piano Sonata D958 – 094638432128) Abschied von der Erde, D829 |
Two musical titans in the classical world, British tenor Ian Bostridge and Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, both major EMI Classics artists, are brought together once again in a 2CD compilation celebrating their great contribution and commitment to Schubert for the label. As well as featuring specially selected lieder and piano fragments from their critically acclaimed Bostridge / Andsnes Schubert Sonata and Lieder series, the album also includes five newly recorded lieder never previously released by Bostridge. Their partnership was described by The Times as "one of the most inspired of record-company matchmakings: the two musicians really do test and try each other at every turn, as well as being mutually supportive…” Firmly established in the opera house, concert hall and recital room, and much sought after internationally as one of the finest of his generation of tenors, Ian Bostridge is today one of the leading Schubert lieder interpreters, repertoire that he openly states as his first love. Ian’s passion for lieder dates back to early studies at his school in England. Ian explains: ‘I had a wonderful German teacher at my school who got me into German lieder and that has been the thing that has really made me a musician – the lieder.’ “An attractive compilation from EMI's 2001-02 series of Schubert Lieder and piano music. Here, it's predominantly Lieder, with just three piano fragments; but with both artists at their relaxed and creatively focused best.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 **** “...from Bostridge you have intelligent word painting, effortless sense of line, langorous phrasing, and a vocal quality that is as sonorous in the upper register as it is mellow in the lower. Andsnes more than accompanies, he pushes the beauty and depth of the piano writing to the fore, whilst never unbecomingly stealing the show.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 11th July 2008 “Ian Bostridge is one of the most effective Schubert voices in Europe today” The Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 35Schubert, 1822-1825
Lynne Dawson, Geraldine McGreevy, Patricia Rozario, Lorna Anderson (sopranos), Catherine Denley, Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contraltos), John Mark Ainsley, Philip Langridge, Ian Bostridge, Jamie Macdougall, Daniel Norman, Toby Spence (tenors), Thomas Hampson, Maarten Koningsberger, Christopher Maltman, Simon Keenlyside, Stephan Loges (baritones), Neal Davies (bass) Graham Johnson (piano) The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton “Throughout the disc, Graham Johnson's accompaniments are typically illuminating with numerous touches of detail glossed over by many pianists. And, as ever, his vastly comprehensive notes, amounting to no less than a book, are in a class of their own” BBC Music Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Volume 9 - Schubert’s Friends Volume 1
Markus Eiche (baritone), Jens Fuhr (piano) “For anyone investigating the side streets of Schubert this will serve very nicely, particularly with Jens Fuhr's excellent accompaniments and Naxos's fine sound” American Record Guide, July/August 2004 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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