Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 2, 1820-1830
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Decades: A Century of Song - Volume 2, 1820-1830
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Luis Gomes (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor) Anush Hovhanissyan (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo) Christopher Maltman (bass)
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Release Date: Friday 23 June 2017
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The second volume in this major recording series, across which a host of world-renowned singers draw listeners, decade by decade, through a century of song, from 1810 to 1910. Each volume features a carefully planned, varied programme performed by household names, whilst the series overall creates a comprehensive survey of song right through the nineteenth century - an invaluable teaching asset, as well as a joy for listeners.
Includes songs from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Russia, by Vincenzo Bellini, Mikhail Glinka, Carl Loewe, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis Niedermeyer, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
The three principal singers for this second volume are mezzo Sarah Connolly, tenor John Mark Ainsley and baritone Christopher Maltman, who are joined by tenors Robin Tritschler and Luis Gomes, and Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan, accompanied by the series' creator, pianist Malcolm Martineau
Of special note is Sarah Connolly's performance of Schubert's three 'Ellen Songs', including a glorious rendition of the classic 'Ave Maria', Christopher Maltman's vivid portrayal of Goethe's 'Erlkönig' in Loewe's setting, and John Mark Ainsley's beautifully crafted renditions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn
Extensive presentation includes 64 page booklet with authoritative liner note in three languages by renowned song expert and series consultant Prof Susan Youens, with full texts and translations.
"the range is wide and unpredictable, embracing seven composers and four languages … [Glinka songs] thrillingly caught by the flame-toned Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan ... John Mark Ainsley brings thoughtful, shapely phrasing … Christopher Maltman, with his histrionic flair and colouristic range, is in his element … tenor Luis Gomes has the right vibrant, Latin timbre … Sarah Connolly's deliriously impassioned singing … Malcolm Martineau, recorded with welcome prominence, is the most observant and imaginative of pianist partners" Gramophone Magazine, June 2017
"The second instalment in a perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs" MusicWeb International, May 2017
"The singers have been well chosen. Portuguese tenor Luis Gomes is impassioned in Bellini's small domestic substitutes or operatic arias, while Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan brings vitality and personality to Glinka…Sarah Connolly is grand yet subtly inflected in Schubert, Irish tenor Robin Tritschler dramatic in Niedermeyer's Le Lac…Malcom Martineau is superb, technically immaculate and consistently imaginative" BBC Music Magazine, July 2017 ****
"It's a very clever cross-section: it's taking that decade and going across the continents … it gives you a real snapshot … collating them together, and not necessarily going for the obvious ones, that's what I love about this collection." Record Review, 17th June 2017
"Maltman and Connolly's Schubert performances are beguiling and deliciously nuanced; Hovhannisyan is gorgeously dusky in her Glinka songs; Tritschler is endearing in Louis Niedermeyer's Le Lac; passion oozes from Gomes' Bellini arias; Ainsley is light and delicate in Schumann's rippling Sehnsucht. Martineau's empathetic pianism is the steadying omnipresence." The Scotsman, 15th May 2017
Tracks:
Bellini:
Malinconia, ninfa gentile
Ma rendi pur contento
Vanne, o rosa fortunata
Glinka:
Skazhi, zachem
Ne iskushay menya bez nuzhdi
Moya harfa
Loewe, C:
Der Erlkönig, Op. 1 No. 3 (Goethe)
Herr Oluf "Herr Oluf reitet spät und weit", Op. 2/2
Mendelssohn:
Minnelied im Mai 'Holder klingt der Vogelsang', Op. 8 No. 1
Niedermeyer:
Le lac
Schubert:
Auf der Bruck, D853
Im Frühling, D882
Aus 'Heliopolis' - I D753 (Mayrhofer)
Gondelfahrer, D808
Auflösung, D807
Ellen 1-3, Op. 52
Der Winterabend (Es ist so still), D938
Die Taubenpost, D965A (D957 No. 14)
Schumann:
Sehnsucht
