A stunning recital of Schubert Leider. I have bought this in the first week of January and already feel it will be one of my CD top buys for 2009. A beautiful voice which is fluid and articulate. Highly recommended.
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A stunning recital of Schubert Leider. I have bought this in the first week of January and already feel it will be one of my CD top buys for 2009. A beautiful voice which is fluid and articulate. Highly recommended.
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A stunning recital of Schubert Leider. I have bought this in the first week of January and already feel it will be one of my CD top buys for 2009. A beautiful voice which is fluid and articulate. Highly recommended.
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A stunning recital of Schubert Leider. I have bought this in the first week of January and already feel it will be one of my CD top buys for 2009. A beautiful voice which is fluid and articulate. Highly recommended.
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Warlock is by no means among the greatest of composers. His style may even seem a bit antiquated and overcautious for its time. However, in the loving hands of Ainsley and Vignoles these small lyric songs become great art. In fact it is hard to imagine this music done better. Ainsley sings with wonderful honeyed sweetness and assertive ring, and vVignobles provides excellent mellow accompagniment. Any fan of lyric tenor singing should own this one!
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Warlock is by no means among the greatest of composers. His style may even seem a bit antiquated and overcautious for its time. However, in the loving hands of Ainsley and Vignoles these small lyric songs become great art. In fact it is hard to imagine this music done better. Ainsley sings with wonderful honeyed sweetness and assertive ring, and vVignobles provides excellent mellow accompagniment. Any fan of lyric tenor singing should own this one!
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Duparc composed little and published less. The 17 songs with piano (including one duet) that we have on this disc - just over one hour of music - constitute virtually all he choose to leave us as a musical legacy after more than 80 years of life. Some of the poets he set are familiar names - Baudelaire, Gautier, Sully-Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle, one translation from Goethe - but three of the 17 are by one Jean Lahor. What they have as a common theme is a sense of incapacity to deal with mundane life, this manifested in the earlier poems as an escape into fantasy and dreams, lapsing into lonely sadness in the later. Whether the poetry of Lahor is of 'middling quality', in the supercilious phrase of the liner-note writer, I wouldn't be knowing. ... Read More:
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Duparc composed little and published less. The 17 songs with piano (including one duet) that we have on this disc - just over one hour of music - constitute virtually all he choose to leave us as a musical legacy after more than 80 years of life. Some of the poets he set are familiar names - Baudelaire, Gautier, Sully-Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle, one translation from Goethe - but three of the 17 are by one Jean Lahor. What they have as a common theme is a sense of incapacity to deal with mundane life, this manifested in the earlier poems as an escape into fantasy and dreams, lapsing into lonely sadness in the later. Whether the poetry of Lahor is of 'middling quality', in the supercilious phrase of the liner-note writer, I wouldn't be knowing. ... Read More:
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Duparc composed little and published less. The 17 songs with piano (including one duet) that we have on this disc - just over one hour of music - constitute virtually all he choose to leave us as a musical legacy after more than 80 years of life. Some of the poets he set are familiar names - Baudelaire, Gautier, Sully-Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle, one translation from Goethe - but three of the 17 are by one Jean Lahor. What they have as a common theme is a sense of incapacity to deal with mundane life, this manifested in the earlier poems as an escape into fantasy and dreams, lapsing into lonely sadness in the later. Whether the poetry of Lahor is of 'middling quality', in the supercilious phrase of the liner-note writer, I wouldn't be knowing. ... Read More:
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This outstanding CD of Beethoven songs was initially released in 1999 and won a Gramophone Award. The performers are baritone Stephan Genz, a young German singer who has studied with Fischer-Dieskau and British pianist Roger Vignoles. Genz has a rich, mellow voice and the collaboration between singer and pianist is close and beautiful.
Although Beethoven's songs have received some attention on disk, they remain the least-known part of his output. Beethoven composed over 80 songs, in addition to his folk-song arrangements, dating from all stages of his career. They are among the most deeply-felt portions of his output.
Beethoven's songs generally have two main themes. First, the songs are largely pastorale in character. ... Read More:
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