

CKD511M
Originally recorded in October 2017
Classical
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With a partnership honed over many concerts and several recordings together, including a GRAMMY-nominated Die schöne Müllerin, the pair turn their attention to two of the greatest song cycles of the nineteenth century.
The recording opens with Schumann’s Op. 39, Liederkreis, settings of Joseph von Eichedorff’s poems, and finishes with Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, written around forty years later. The songs selected all tell, in varying hues, of the Romantic individual’s sense of alienation from others and of transcendence, or the longing for it.
An expressive and accomplished storyteller Boesch’s perceptive phrasing and exquisite range of colours is well matched by Martineau’s virtuosic and perfectly synchronized accompaniment.
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Reviews
“...This is lieder singing in the highest division! The twelve songs that constitute this cycle...may not have been more beautifully sung in recent times.”
Performance ***** Recording *****
“...Boesch's flexible and rich-grained baritone blends with the colourful support of Malcolm Martineau at the piano to offer splendidly characterised accounts...”
“...The interpretations are intriguingly evocative and I cannot remember hearing Mahler's ‘Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen’ this atmospheric.”
“......the way he goes from the virile nightly dialogue of “Waldesgesprach” so well characterised to the nocturnal hush and unearthly stillness of “Mondnacht” is extraordinary ..."
“...Boesch has a tone and a mode of delivery for every mood.” ****
“...their Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen takes excellence to even greater levels.”
Performance ***** Sound: Balance 5 Inner Balance 3 Detail & Clarity : Dynamic Range: 4
“......there is a sense of rapt concentration, acute emotional involvement and some of the most ravishing sounds you are ever likely to hear from a baritone.”
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