Ferne Geliebte

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BEETHOVEN / BERG / SCHOENBERG / HAYDN
Ferne Geliebte
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)

[ Sony Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 10 October 2012

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"The Beethoven cycle immediately reacquaints us with Gerhaher's familiar virtues of a beautiful, even voice and unforced clarity of diction" Gramophone Editor's Choice - October 2012

"The Beethoven cycle immediately reacquaints us with Gerhaher's familiar virtues of a beautiful, even voice and unforced clarity of diction...Others have portrayed more suggestively the highly coloured, alien dream-world the cycle seems to inhabit...but few have shown how intimately Stefan George's poems determine the pitches and rhythms of Schoenberg's singing combines lyrical beauty with meticulous detail." Gramophone Editor's Choice - October 2012

"Admirers of Gerhaher...will need no encouragement to...be re-acquainted with his beautiful baritone, clean diction and highly cultivated interpretative stance. The programme he has selected with pianist Gerold Huber will not, however, appeal to everyone...though the softness of Gerhaher's timbre and the intelligence of his word-painting gives them an ideally seductive cushion." (Financial Times)

"a recital of rare and compelling musical intelligence and integrity of response...But as well as the intellectual satisfaction of this recital, there is also the sheer delight of Gerhaher's superbly cultivated baritone, and his outstanding artistry. If ever art concealed art, it is here" (BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Vocal Finalist)

Tracks:

Beethoven:
An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98
Adelaide, Op. 46

Berg:
5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4

Haydn:
Trost unglucklicher Liebe, Hob. XXVIa:9
Geistliches Lied, Hob. XXVIa:17
Das Leben ist ein Traum, Hob. XXVIa:21

Schoenberg:
Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten, Op. 15