SCHUBERT Songs Vol 2
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Composer or Director: Franz Schubert
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Magazine Review Date: 09/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 73
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: WHLIVE0077
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Im Frühling |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Über Wildemann |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
(Der) Liebliche Stern |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Tiefes Leid, 'Im Jänner 1817' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Auf der Bruck |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Aus 'Heliopolis' I |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Aus 'Heliopolis' II |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Abendbilder, 'Nocturne' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Lied, 'Ins stille Land' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Totengräbers Heimweh |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Auf der Riesenkoppe |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Sei mir gegrüsst |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Dass sie hier gewesen |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
(Die) Forelle |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
(Des) Fischers Liebesglück |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Fischerweise |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Atys |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Nachtviolen |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Geheimnis (An Franz Schubert) |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Im Walde, 'Waldesnacht' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Franz Schubert, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Julius Drake, Piano |
Author: David Patrick Stearns
No Bostridge Schubert performance is going to have the warm-bath comfort one has from velvet-voice baritones such as Gerhaher. The tenor’s rhetorical manner is that of a fevered outsider with words more sharply articulated than ever (compared to more conversational native German singers) as if he’s singing Hugo Wolf. This doesn’t sit well with songs such as ‘Die Forelle’; but he also brings straightforward simplicity to ‘Aus Heliopolis I’ (D753).
Yet in his recent book, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Bostridge periodically cautions against word-painting at every opportunity. In that spirit, he supplies textual articulation and emotional heat but leaves more specific characterisation up to Drake at the piano. Similarly, Bostridge brings extraordinary breath control to ‘Im Frühling’ (D882), using long vocal lines with architectural cunning. When Schubert repeats a few words at the end of each stanza, the effect can seem like a poetically marginal completion of a musical thought. But Bostridge uses those repeated words to crystalise the meaning of long lines that came before.
His voice has a few more miles on the clock than in his earlier, luminously engineered Schubert recitals for EMI. Also, he periodically tests his lower range, and it rarely goes well. Yet my preference for his earlier Schubert recordings doesn’t diminish the many achievements of this Wigmore recital.
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