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[Janowitz] is in remarkably fresh voice throughout. There’s a certain loss of bloom, inevitably, and an occasional brittleness of intonation, but the unique sound is unmistakable, the delivery... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2017 More…

Release Date: 4th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: FHR056
Label: First Hand
Length: 82 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

September 2017

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Schubert: Die Gotter Griechenlands D677 (Schiller)

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Schubert: Iphigenia, D573 (Mayrhofer)

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Schubert: An die Leier, D737 (Bruchmann)

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Schubert: Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus (Ellens Gesang I), D837

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Schubert: Fischerweise, D881 (Schlechta)

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Schubert: Der Fluss, D693

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Schubert: Im Abendrot, D799

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Excerpt, Schubert: Winterreise D911

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 5, Der Lindenbaum

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Schubert: Das Lied im Grünen, D917

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

Excerpt, Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 9, Lied der Suleika

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Excerpt, Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 26, Schneeglöckchen

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Excerpt, Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 7, Die Lotosblume

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Excerpt, Schumann: Gedichte (6) und Requiem, Op. 90

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 2, Meine Rose

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Excerpt, Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 3, Der Nussbaum

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Funf Lieder, Op. 15

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 3, Lob des Leidens

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Acht Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter', Op. 10

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 8, Allerseelen

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Vier Lieder Op. 27

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 4, Morgen!

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Lieder (3), Op. 29

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 3, Nachtgang

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Fünf Lieder, Op. 39

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

No. 4, Befreit

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Schubert: Die Forelle, D550

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Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)

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Released in UK on Gundula Janowitz’s 80th birthday. 2017 is also the 40th anniversary of Maria Callas’ death. Brigitte Fassbaender said: ‘Gundula Janowitz possesses one of those voices where you have only to hear a couple of notes and you immediately know who it is. Her elegant timbre and unmistakably instrumental way of forming the phrases is unique.’ Few singers have voices that approach the purity of Janowitz’s: with its very fast vibrato and ‘white’ production, the focused sound can soar, swoop and dip with astonishing ease and control, the vocal line becoming almost liquefied into a seemingly endless melisma. Janowitz’s recorded catalogue, tends to misrepresent the focus of her career because it downplays her work as a recitalist. Of course, she did tape all of Schubert’s songs for high voice but apart from a couple of late song recitals and a disc of Hindemith’s Das Marienleben, that is all we have to remember her by as a performer of song. So this album will be a welcome addition to her discography. For her Athens recital, Janowitz chose two composers absolutely at the centre of her song repertoire, Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss, with a third, Robert Schumann, forming a bridge between the two.

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September 2017

[Janowitz] is in remarkably fresh voice throughout. There’s a certain loss of bloom, inevitably, and an occasional brittleness of intonation, but the unique sound is unmistakable, the delivery still clear and confident...here are songs with a certain valedictory potential that is brought out by the occasion as well as by an interpretative approach from Janowitz that is non-interventionist and leisurely.

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