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2021-03-08 08:39:20
The undeservedly neglected lieder of Josephine Lang are at the centre of this lovely recital from Scottish-German mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison
[…] one of Köstlin's poems, and he would write poems for Lang which she would then set, an intimate connection which somewhat resembles the musical intertwining of Robert and Clara Schumann at a similar period. The song appears simple at first, but you realise that it is not. 'Die Schwalben', setting Christoph August Tiedge, is delightfully playful, whilst 'Gestern und Heute', setting Fernanda Pappenheim, is an evocation of quiet stilless, yet we feel emotions too. 'Mignons Klage', setting the famous text by Goethe, is full of vivid emotion, but there is an interesting pause in the piano before the final verse, and you feel a sense of Lang being determinedly different in her approach to the well-known song. Finally there is 'Abschied', setting Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze, bringing the group to a beautifully touching conclusion. Hearing Lang's songs you struggle to understand why her music is so little known, and I […]
2020-07-08 14:01:50
Schubert's Four Seasons: an imaginative exploration of Schubert song from Sharon Carty and Jonathan Ware
Schubert's Four Seasons - Viola, Klage der Ceres and other songs; Sharon Carty, Jonathan Ware; GENUIN Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 July 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An exploration of the seasons through Schubert's song, with two of his larger scale pieces, from the young Irish mezzo-sopranoThe Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty is someone who has come into the orbit of Planet Hugill a number of times, she was in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh's opera The Second Violinist which Ruth reviewed in 2018, and more recently Carty was in the first recording of Gilbert and Cellier's The Mountebanks conducted by John Andrews on Dutton [see my review].Now we have the chance to hear Sharon Carty in proper focus with the release of her recital Schubert's Four Seasons on the Genuin label. Accompanied by pianist Jonathan Ware, Carty sings a selection of Schubert's songs themed around the seasons, with […]
2018-10-18 12:29:17
Untold riches - music from Estonia & the Baltic at the Oxford Lieder Festival
[…] often sung by choirs. An elegiac, folk-like piece, Rüütel sang it unaccompanied.The Brahms group followed, four songs from his Fünf Lieder, op.105 written between 1885 and 1886. Wie Melodien though nicely flowing was perhaps a little too sober and serious, but it did give us a fine flavour of Rüütel's rich-toned mezzo-soprano. She relaxed more into Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer which was beautifully shaped with a sense of a still, quiet centre, and a moment of vibrant drama towards the end. Klage was lighter and more characterful, though still with a serious demeanour. Auf dem Kirchhofe started with Roger Vignoles' dramatic piano, and the vocal line had the feeling of dramatic recitative, again very focused, serious and intent.A group of songs by Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) followed. In the silence of the forest was full of melancholy longing, with its evocatively chromatic piano and richly romantic vocal line, sung by Rüütel with lots of vibrant yet focused tone. The Soldier's Wife was still melancholy, […]
2018-05-11 11:27:00
BERGfrühling (1) – Schubert, Weber, and Berg, 10 May 2018
[…] likewise the finale. It was often not entirely clear what the material was doing where it was, nor how their tonal structure might operate. And yet, even there, there were hints of something darker, more Freischütz-like. The second movement scherzo benefited from nicely sprung rhythms and a pleasing semi-rusticity for its ‘trio’ material. Those two tendencies are more bound together in a single dance – and here, the music certainly danced. A beautifully posed ‘Schäfers Klage’ (‘Shepherd’s Lament’) was the highpoint, subtle in its navigation between Classical and Romantic tendencies – as one must be in Weber, or Schubert for that matter. It is a truly fascinating movement, all the more so in so illuminating a performance as this. For the final work, we turned to Berg: to the world premiere of Martyn Harry’s arrangement for the ensemble of the composer’s own Fragments from ‘Wozzeck’, echoing the […]
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