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Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)

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Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)

Jessye Norman - Schubert: Lieder (1985)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 42:30 | 181 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Philips | Catalog: 412623

I can claim possibly some very small influence on this record. Some years ago Jessye Norman broke the last and very difficult phrase of Ganymed with a breath. I then pointed out in a review that Gerald Moore (in Singer and Accompanist London: 1953) had urged singers to phrase it in one as Norman has done in recitals, and now on record, ever since. Cause and effect? I don't know. This is, in any case, one of the most rewarding performances on the record, sung with conviction and, throughout, with long-breathed phrasing.

Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)

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Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)

Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029500570 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, À sa guitare takes it's name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But it's frame of reference is extraordinarily wide - both culturally and stylistically. It's 22 tracks range across 400 years and music by composers and songwriters from France, Britain, Austria, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and the USA.

Matthias Goerne, Florian Donderer, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Schubert Revisited (2023)

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Matthias Goerne, Florian Donderer, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Schubert Revisited (2023)

Matthias Goerne, Florian Donderer, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Schubert Revisited (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 75:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 483 9758 | Recorded: 2019

Matthias Goerne marks a notable first with his latest album. He departs from the familiar territory of Schubert’s songs with piano accompaniment to perform a selection of pieces freshly arranged for voice and orchestra by his long-standing recital partner Alexander Schmalcz. Exploring this new terrain with Goerne are the musicians of The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Schubert Revisited is released today.

Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (2009)

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Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (2009)

Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 63:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 478 1528 | Recorded: 2009

Schubert's devastating song cycle, Die Schöne Mullerin is not solely for the singer, but exists as an equal duet between pianist and voice. Listeners will experience Jonas Kaufmann's voice from an entirely new perspective, as he sings romantic Lieder. Kaufmann's outstanding ability to communicate though the music with his versatile voice is heartwarming. Helmut Deutsch, a renowned collaborative pianist, brings his intelligence and sensitive artistry to bear in these heart-rending performances.

Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)

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Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)

Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 581 | Recorded: 2019

The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré's Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell's Sleep, Adam, sleep with it's references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms's Salamander, Wolf's Die Bekehrte or Ravel's Air du Feu.

Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Winterreise (2014)

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Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Winterreise (2014)

Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Franz Schubert: Winterreise (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 211 Mb | Total time: 70:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88883795652 | Recorded: 2013

A superstar of opera, Jonas Kaufmann is somewhat less renowned for his interpretations of art songs, though this 2014 Sony release of Franz Schubert's Winterreise is his second disc in the genre, following his 2009 recording of Die schöne Müllerin for Decca. Even though it's more recognizable in the context of his Wagner and Verdi roles, Kaufmann's fluid and strongly supported tenor voice is well-suited to Schubert's arching lines and lyrical expressions, and its warm tone and rich timbres convey a variety of moods and emotions with minimal effort and no strain.

Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau - An die Musik: Favourite Schubert Songs (1994)

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Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau - An die Musik: Favourite Schubert Songs (1994)

Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau - An die Musik: Favourite Schubert Songs (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 69:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 6358 | Recorded: 1994

Terfel's gift is a generous, individual voice, a natural feeling for German and an inborn abil- ity to go to the heart of what he attempts. His singing here is grand in scale – listen to any of the dramatic songs and the point is made – but like Hotter, whom he so often resembles, he's able to reduce his large voice to the needs of a sustained, quiet line, as in Meerestille. When the two come together as in Der Wanderer, the effect can be truly electrifying, even more so, perhaps, in Erlkönig where the four participants are superbly contrasted. Yet this is a voice that can also smile, as in An die Laute and 'Die Taubenpost' or express wonder, as in Ganymed, a most exhilarating interpretation, or again explode in sheer anger as in the very first song, the strenuous Gruppe aus dem Tartarus.

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)

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Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2573 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

The last years of Schubert's life were clouded by illness, so thoughts of the afterlife cannot have been far from his mind. For their latest recital for BIS, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present an all-Schubert recital themed around Elysium, the mythical idea of a blessed and happy eternal future, with texts that explore different states of the afterlife by well-known authors such as Goethe, Rückert and Schiller as well as by lesser-known ones.

Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch - Voyage Intime (2022)

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Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch - Voyage Intime (2022)

Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch - Voyage Intime: Liszt, Wolf, Schubert, Schumann, Duparc, Boulanger, Debussy (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 240 Mb | Total time: 61:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 911 | Recorded: 2022

Sandrine Piau and the pianist David Kadouch have formed a new duo whose first concerts have been enthusiastically received. As is her wont, the French soprano enjoys intermingling languages and the worlds of different composers and poets around a theme; here Schubert, Liszt, Wolf and Clara Schumann rub shoulders with Lili Boulanger, Duparc and Debussy. Sandrine Piau explains: ‘The promise of new horizons, the joy of new encounters: the journey in all its forms was the common thread of this recital for David and me.

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

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Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)

Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider - Sirène (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 69:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 477 9463 | Recorded: 2010

In a scene where the recordings of young sopranos tend toward an extreme sameness, Austria's Anna Prohaska would deserve kudos simply for the ambition of this release of soldiers' songs. The idea, especially for a female singer, is original, and the music draws on a great variety of sources, from Scottish song to Wolfgang Rihm. Better still is the execution, which shows Prohaska's extreme versatility.

Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)

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Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)

Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida - Schubert: Schwanengesang; Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 242 Mb | Total time: 71:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 3577 | Recorded: 2022

Two masterful Schubert interpreters, tenor Mark Padmore & pianist Mitsuko Uchida record Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte for the first time. On a new Decca Classics album, Uchida and Padmore appear on record for the first time in this live recording from London’s Wigmore Hall. They perform Schubert’s Schwanengesang (his “Swansong”, first published weeks after the composer’s premature death in 1828) and Beethoven’s only major song cycle An die ferne Geliebte. With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire.

Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg - Schubert: Lieder (1997)

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Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg  - Schubert: Lieder (1997)

Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg - Schubert: Lieder (1997)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 282 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 178 MB | 01:08:43
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

She's not shy, this Anne-Sofie von Otter. Her performances are, to say the least, incredibly expressive. Her Suleika I (D. 720) is Brigitte Bardot in Contempt. Her Im Abendrot (D. 799) is Kim Novak in Vertigo. Her Totengräbers Heimweh is Eli Walach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Nor is von Otter dumb. Her interpretations are sly, subtle, and very, very sensitive. Her Der Wanderer an den Mond (D. 870) is hearty and lightly but profoundly philosophical.

Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)

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Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)

Stéphane Degout, Simon Lepper - Epic: Lieder & Balladen (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 230 Mb | Total time: 63:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi ‎| HMM902367 | Recorded: 2019

“The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told” - Goethe. This fascinating repertory requires the performer to play each of the characters as he or she would in an opera. Who better than Stéphane Degout to take up the challenge of plunging into the heart of German Romanticism? Fresh from winning a Victoire de la Musique in 2019, the French baritone truly embodies each of the protagonists in these shattering miniature dramas. Beside him here are a longstanding partner and two exceptional guests.

Christian Hilz, Eckart Sellheim - Schubert: Winterreise (2010)

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Christian Hilz, Eckart Sellheim - Schubert: Winterreise (2010)

Christian Hilz, Eckart Sellheim - Schubert: Winterreise (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 268 MB | 01:04:07
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Winterreise, or Winter’s Journey, was composed in 1827, just a year before Schubert’s premature death. The song cycle contains some of his greatest music – by turn highly emotional, desolate and spare, and with a sense of alienation and loss that makes the listener shudder even after repeated hearings. Schubert was especially proud of these songs, writing to his friend and fellow composer Josef von Spaun: ‘I will sing you a cycle of eerie songs.

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

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Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic [3CDs] (2016)

Max Emanuel Cencic - Fantastic Cencic (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0.97 Gb | Total time: 75:31+78:36+80:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190295904722 | Recorded: 1992, 1993, 2007-2012

Even in an age of thrilling countertenors, Max Emanuel Cencic stands out for the heroic scale and brilliance of his voice, his expansive lyricism, and his imagination and enterprise in choice of repertoire. Cencic has excelled as both a soprano and a mezzo-soprano, and Fantastic Cencic showcases his extraordinary interpretative range – from the great and lesser-known masters of the Baroque to the bel canto of Rossini and composers of the Romantic era from Schubert to Strauss. The third of these three CDs comprises recordings from the early 1990s, shortly after Cencic left the Wiener Sängerknaben, which are released here for the first time.