Notes and Editorial Reviews
This album was nominated for the 2005 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance."
Quasthoff provides Lieder-lovers with another absorbing example of his fine art
On this generous offering, Thomas Quasthoff presents his many admirers with a cornucopia of pleasurable, intelligent music-making in a judiciously varied recital. Such are his gifts as a singer and as an interpreter that one could just sit back and revel in his glorious voice, his subtle colouring of tone and his virtually infallible technique, but that would be to overlook his astonishing ability to match the varied styles of his chosen composers. All that is exemplified in his accounts of Schubert's Im Fruhling and Auf der
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Bruck, both settings of Schulze, on successive tracks. In the first we hear the soulful intimacies of a sensitive lover musing on his situation; in the other, a strong-willed suitor seeking reunion with his partner. Each is brought unerringly before us by both singer and his ever-thoughtful, highly skilled pianist. Then comes the rapt beauty of Im Abendrot, a reading ideally expounded in long-breathed sentences. Schumann's Belsatzar discloses another facet of Quasthoff's far-ranging art - the ability to catch the listener's attention by vivid storytelling, the mood of the doomed ruler aptly portrayed in all his hubris, until shivers come into both the writing and the singer's interpretation when the terrible words appear on the wall. In quite a different tale, the Scottish-derived Tom der Reimer of Loewe, Quasthoff adopts a suitably airy, smiling manner to depict the ballad's glittering fantasy. Then we are easily transported into the healing world of Wolf's Morike setting about the rising spirits of a convalescent, where the singing is wonderfully broad and easeful, just as the humour of 'Storchenbotshaft' is naturally enacted. Even in the well-known Strauss numbers, Quasthoff need have no fear of comparison with the famous of the past, particularly in Heimliche Aufforderung, where his ardour is second to none. Morgen is properly serene though here, as elsewhere, I am slightly troubled by the downward transposition.
There's an unexpected bonus in a heartwarming, entirely idiomatic account of Danny Boy, Quasthoff quite at home in Americantinged English. The recording is faultless. A small complaint: why is the eminent pianist's name given in such small print? He adds so much to the disc's success that he deserved better.
-- Alan Blyth, Gramophone [7/2004]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Frühlingsglaube, D 686/Op. 20 no 2 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1820; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: German
2.
Heidenröslein, D 257/Op. 3 no 3 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1815; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: German
3.
Die Forelle, D 550 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1817; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 11 Secs.
Language: German
4.
Im Frühling, D 882/Op. 101 no 1 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1826; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 49 Secs.
Language: German
5.
Auf der Bruck, D 853 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1825; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: German
6.
Im Abendrot, D 799 by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1824-1825; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: German
7.
Die schöne Müllerin, D 795/Op. 25: no 7, Ungeduld by Franz Schubert
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1823; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 37 Secs.
Language: German
8.
Belsatzar, Op. 57 by Robert Schumann
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 51 Secs.
Language: German
9.
Myrthen, Op. 25: no 1, Widmung by Robert Schumann
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: German
10.
Myrthen, Op. 25: no 2, Freisinn by Robert Schumann
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 18 Secs.
Language: German
11.
Myrthen, Op. 25: no 24, Du bist wie eine Blume by Robert Schumann
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: German
12.
Songs (12), Op. 9: no 8, Frühlingsglaube by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 49 Secs.
Language: German
13.
Songs (6), Op. 34: no 2, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1836; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: German
14.
Mörike Lieder: no 15, Auf einer Wanderung by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: German
15.
Mörike Lieder: no 1, Der Genesene an die Hoffnung by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: German
16.
Mörike Lieder: no 48, Storchenbotschaft by Hugo Wolf
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1888; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
Language: German
17.
Odins Meeresritt, Op. 118 by Carl Loewe
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: German
18.
Ballads (3), Op. 2: no 2, Herr Oluf by Carl Loewe
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1821; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 6 Minutes 6 Secs.
Language: German
19.
Tom der Reimer, Op. 135a by Carl Loewe
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: circa 1860; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 5 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: German
20.
Lieder (8), Op. 10: no 1, Zueignung by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 1 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: German
21.
Lieder (8), Op. 10: no 8, Allerseelen by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1885; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 2 Minutes 55 Secs.
Language: German
22.
Lieder (4), Op. 27: no 3, Heimliche Aufforderung by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Justus Zeyen (Piano),
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 16 Secs.
Language: German
23.
Lieder (4), Op. 27: no 4, Morgen by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; Germany
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 4 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: German
24.
Danny Boy "Londonderry Air" by Traditional
Performer:
Thomas Quasthoff (Baritone),
Justus Zeyen (Piano)
Written: Ireland
Date of Recording: 11/2003
Venue: Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: English
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