Songs
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SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / GRIEG
Songs
Miah Persson (soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
[ Wigmore Hall Live / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 September 2015
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Famed for her highly intelligent performances and deep engagement with music, Swedish soprano Miah Persson is in great demand throughout the world. She returned to Wigmore Hall last February with internationally renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles to perform a wonderfully emotive and dramatic programme.
Opening with some of the most celebrated Schubert Lieder, Persson revealed a refined interpretation of each song, searching deep within the texts to convey emotions from agony to ecstasy. With great passion, Persson then entered the Scandinavian sound world to complete her programme with Grieg's stormy Six Songs and a beautiful collection of Sibelius's most evocative settings.
"Persson is beautiful and so is her voice, so she starts with a big advantage. But that is only the start...I did find...that there was a danger of monotony, undercharacterisation and reliance on sheer undeniable vocal beauty. Roger Vignoles is an ideal accompanist, setting the mood with a few notes or chords" (BBC Music)v
"'Gretchen am Spinnrade' is a model of how a middle-weight voice can scale the song's peaks thanks to an inner conviction and trusting how the notes and words can shoulder the dramatic weight...So beautiful is her enunciation in the Swedish-language Sibelius songs that you could take phonetic dictation...The Grieg songs show signs of vocal tiring...In 'Die verschwiegene Nachtigall', though, one can hardly imagine a more alluring nightingale song." (Gramophone)
Tracks:
Grieg:
Seks Sange, Op. 48
Schubert:
Suleika I, D720
Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, D877/4
Rastlose Liebe, D138
Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)
Richard Hosford (clarinet)
Sibelius:
Våren flyktar hastigt, Op. 13 No. 4 (Text: Runeberg)
Den första kyssen, Op. 37 No. 1 (Text: J.L. Runeberg)
Var det en dröm? Op. 37 No. 4 (J.J. Wecksell)
Säf, säf, susa, Op. 36 No. 4 (Text: Gustav Fröding)
Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte, Op. 37, No. 5
Grieg:
Hjertets Melodier af H. C.Andersen, Op. 5 No. 3 'Jeg elsker Dig'
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