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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Robert Schumann - Lieder (Matthias Goerne)


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Composer: Robert Schumann
  • (01) Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90
  • (07) 7 Lieder from Opp. 25, 37, 83, 96 & 101
  • (14) 6 Gesänge, Op. 89

Matthias Goerne, baritone
Markus Hinterhäuser, piano

Date: 2017
Label: harmonia mundi
http://www.harmoniamundi.com/#!/albums/2242

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Review

There’s a certain overlap between this new Schumann disc from Matthias Goerne and one he recorded in the early 2000s (Decca, 1/05). Both share five songs each from the composer’s Op 90, the same trio from Myrthen, as well as ‘Nachtlied’ and ‘Der Einsiedler’.

From these overlaps we might infer that this new album, with an emphasis on later, lesser-known songs, contains several of Goerne’s favourites. And for Harmonia Mundi his interpretations continue along the same introspective path as the earlier disc: some performances are slower, some a little swifter. But that sense of thoughtfulness, of a singer immersed in his own poetic world – Schumann doesn’t get much more innig than this – is, if anything, intensified.

Goerne’s baritone now has some wear but it remains beautiful. There’s an impressive control of line and a lovely veiled piano tone in the upper end of his range; the breaths, deep and long, seem to be drawn from a deep emotional well. As I noted with regard to his recent Brahms disc (9/16), he’s most comfortable at lower volumes; and this largely reflective repertoire doesn’t call on his fortissimo often.

But again, as with his Brahms, his slow tempos never, to me, mean mere placidity. With Goerne there’s always a sense of knotted-up psychological energy beneath, an energy that occasionally also breaks through to the surface – in the way he and Markus Hinterhäuser, after an exquisitely weighted first couple of pages of ‘Requiem’, suddenly step on the gas at the Nach und nach belebte (gradually more lively) marking, for example. ‘Schwere Abend’ is given as an urgent recitative; only in the more extrovert ‘Ins Freie’ does Goerne seem a little uncomfortable.

Hinterhäuser deserves a special mention, too. He coaxes a tone of supreme pearly beauty from his Steinway and matches Goerne note for note in terms of creating the disc’s beguiling atmosphere. Harmonia Mundi’s engineering captures the piano sound perfectly. I’m less sure about the amount of reverberation around Goerne’s voice. Nevertheless, this is another deeply thoughtful and often moving recital.

-- Hugo Shirley, Gramophone

More reviews:
BBC Music Magazine  PERFORMANCE: ***** / RECORDING: *****
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/May/Schumann_Einsamkeit_HMM902243.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/20/schumann-leider-cd-review-matthias-goerne-einsamkeit-markus-hinterhauser-harmonia-mundi
https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/schumann-einsamkeit-lieder-matthias-goerne-markus-hinterhauser/

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Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, and left an array of acclaimed music in virtually all the forms then known. Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. Schumann suffered from a lifelong mental disorder, and died in 1856 without having recovered from his illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

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Matthias Goerne (born March 31, 1967 in Weimar) is a German baritone. He studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, and with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Since his opera début at the Salzburg Festival in 1997, Matthias Goerne has appeared on opera stages worldwide with carefully chosen roles. He has recently completed the recording of a series of selected Schubert songs on 12 CDs for harmonia mundi (The Goerne/Schubert Edition) with eminent pianists. His latest recordings of Brahms songs with Christoph Eschenbach and of Mahler songs with the BBC Symphony have received rave reviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Goerne
http://www.matthiasgoerne.com/

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