If this 2007 recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio was the only one you were to hear, you would likely be well satisfied. Nikolaus Harnoncourt knows the work from long experience, his first recording dates from 1973, and he knows not only how to balance the soloists, chorus, and orchestra but how to balance the festive, the reflective, and the ...
This album, which predominantly features Mahler lieder, marks a regrettably inconsistent addition to baritone Christian Gerhaher's otherwise esteemed discography. Unfortunately, the poor qualities of the album have nothing to do with Gerhaher himself. In fact, his performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (heard here in the composer's version for ...
While not all of the 17 Schubert songs collected here under the title Abendbilder (Evening Images) deal specifically with the evening, most are at least tinged with the melancholy that's associated with the end of the day in the romantic imagination, and baritone Christian Gerhaher's passionate sensibility brings that melancholy to the fore. ...
Christian Gerhaher is the latest in a long line of expressive and intelligent baritones who have made a specialty of German lieder. With recordings of Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge, and Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang already to his credit, Gerhaher has already cut a ...
Christian Gerhaher's Winterreise is a respectable addition to the crowded field of available recordings, where the listener's personal preferences will play a strong role in the choice of an ideal performance. Gerhaher's voice is medium-sized, but he can summon up an authentically heroic tone when necessary, and his moments of emotional intimacy ...
The idea for this collection of music written by prisoners at Theresienstadt, or Terezín, grew out of Anne Sofie von Otter's performance at the 2000 International Forum on the Holocaust. The music here represents only a small fraction of what was written and performed at the camp, much of which has been lost. Terezín served as the Nazi's model ...
Despite being a live recording -- or, more accurately, one assembled from several concerts -- this 2005 CD of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is almost as polished and well-produced as a studio recording. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are incredibly tight and coordinated with the choirs and vocal soloists, and everything holds together ...
Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, written when he was 33, contains some immensely appealing music, so it's unfortunate it's so rarely performed or recorded. The secular Romantic oratorio is a genre that's not much in style, so it's especially nice to have such a fine performance available on this RCA SACD. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whose use of ...
Just because the definitive recording of Britten's War Requiem has already been made by Britten himself is no reason not to keep recording it. For one thing, the work is simply too affecting and too important to ignore. And for another, the work is too deep and too varied to be encompassed by only one recording, even one so superlative and so ...
Haydn's operas lag substantially behind the rest of his output in terms of popularity. It wasn't that he was disinclined to write for voices, as anyone who has heard his late choral masterpieces will testify. More likely, the problem is that the formally simple, melodically oriented language of serious opera in his time offered little scope for an ...
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