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1.Schubert: An mein Herz from: Harmonia Mundi November 11, 2008
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Forty years ago Fischer-Dieskaurecorded every Schubert song suited to the male voice, and now his latter-day equal, Matthias Goerne, has set out to duplicate that epochal feat. This two-fer is the second installment, and unlike F-D, who kept Gerald Moore as his sole accompanist throughout, Goerne is trying on different pianists for each installment, a nice idea although the variations in pianistic style seem rather minor. (The two here are Helmut Deutsch and Eric Schneider, both a bit tame for my taste.) The instlalments are arranged thematically, or by mood -- the first was titled "Sensucht" (Yearning) and contained a majority of searching, melancholy songs. This one is more openly romantic in tone -- it's called "An mein Herz" (To my Heart), after one of the songs on the progrzam. ... Read More

2.Complete Webern by: Anton von Webern, Clemens Hagen, David Finckel, Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain, Mary Ann McCormick, Berliner Philharmoniker, Eric Schneider, Gianluca Cascioli, Krystian Zimerman, Oleg Maisenberg, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Christiane Oelze, Francoise Pollet, Lawrence Dutton, Gidon Kremer, Philip Setzer May 09, 2000
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I share the very positive sentiments of the other reviewers. I have heard both of the Boulez anthologies and prefer this one, although the other is excellent too. Compared to the classic Karajan Webern single CD with the same orchestra, which I also admire, the newer Boulez performances of the same pieces are marked by equally fantastic orchestral playing, and even better recording quality, which makes the extreme dynamics of Webern's writing more effective. If there is a better Opus 1 by any composer than Webern's Passacaglia, I would like to hear it. The Schubert and especially Bach arrangements on the first CD are first class. In my view, all the performances are successful - with special kudos to the soprano Christiane Oelze and the Emerson String Quartet. The documentation, in substance and ... Read More

3.Schubert: Winterreise from: Onyx Classics UK August 08, 2006
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Quite an odd performance, this is. I have admired Christine Schäfer's work with Harnoncourt, so this was a dissappointment. Sopranos certainly have their work cut out for them attempting this, and unfortunately she does not rise to the challenge. In fact, it is hurried, and ill-phrased. The piano is ponderous. For a performance by a female, you are best served by Fassbinder.

4.Schumann Lieder from: Decca Import November 09, 2004
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Subtlety and intimacy seem to be the inspiration for this truly wonderful set of Schumann's songs of love remembered, lost, and longed for, and Matthias Goerne interprets them to perfection. Goerne's voice is rich and elegant and text-sensitive and when he sings the softer songs here, his mastery of technique is one of wonder. Not all of the songs included in this recital are well known: many of these selections are from both ends of the composer's life spectrum. This recording should bring the lesser-known songs to the attention of other singers! Though Goerne's voice is never less than beautiful his forte appears to be the quiet, intimate songs where he is able to create a delicacy and sadness that are almost unbearably lovely. Goerne is ably partnered by Eric Schneider at the piano. ... Read More

5.Love's Old Sweet Song: Twenty Five Singers in Popular Ballads from: Asv Living Era July 26, 1994
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In the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century sound recordings were very new and very fascinating to the population at large..Being able to hear a recording of a popular song,or listen to a piano roll transcription was,at the time,considered something of a miracle...Alas,since the technology was new the recording process was primitive...VERY primitive...often entire orchestras played into a recording horn,and the resulting sound reminds one of listening to something in a tunnel...very little could be done to make the sound pristine,and because of it the recordings from that period all have an antique and primitive atmosphere to them...recordings that old,and not saved upon tape,or disc,often poorly kept and poorly maintained,tend to deteriorate ,and,in many cases with regard to the items presented upon this ... Read More

6.Telemann: Bläserkonzerte (Wind Concertos) by: Georg Philipp Telemann, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Pieter Dhont, Michael Niesemann, Eric Hoeprich, Friedemann Immer, Wilbert Hazelzet, Michael Schneider May 11, 1987
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Wind-instrument players are small-muscle athletes. Their virtuosity is based on innate physical endowments. Like it or not, it's so. The velocity of recorderist Michael Schneider's tongue-and-finger biathlon, on Telemann's Concerto in E minor, outpaces an ordinary person's fluency as much as Lance Amstrong's legs outpeddle us. Telemann's 100 or so concerti - many for woodwinds or brass - offer Olympic musical hurdles for wind players, and that's where the fun comes from. But Telemann also seems infallibly to grasp the expressive potentials of the instruments he writes for, and to exploit them idiomatically. Did he perhaps play every instrument in the orchestra? It sounds as if he might have. The Concerto in D minor for Two Chalumeaux, for instance. The chalumeau was a brief experiment that quickly evolved ... Read More

7.Cyrano (1973 Original Broadway Cast) by: Michael J. Lewis, Anthony Burgess, Christopher Plummer March 01, 2005
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With a leading man who can't sing, lyrics that are no better than the title of this review and a score that is like paint by numbers, "Cyrano" is as great a musical as were the Emperor's New Clothes. I saw this show and was bored and appalled that it was even considered a musical. I saw Cyrano at the Palace Theatre where I also saw Yul Brynner in "Home, Sweet Homer." The two shows should play on adouble-bill--The Demise of the Broadway Musical.

8.Apparition: Henry Purcell and George Crumb from: Onyx Classics UK February 12, 2008
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This is a most personal production. Ms. Schäfer produced the album itself, and her aesthetic is as intelligent, subtle, colorful, and moving as her singing. Her collaborator, the amazing pianist Eric Schneider, is a full partner in the music, and together they create a many-faceted atmosphere which combines some spoken verse and--well, not so much sound effects as sound impressions. The songs and spoken word are part of a romantic construct, a pairing of love and death with everything in between--passion, romance, renunciation, doubt, grief, an eerie serenity--the George Crumb setting of the Whitman verse,"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" still causes a frisson each time I hear it. The Purcell settings are some of Shakespeare's sonnets of romantic love, not unlike verses chosen by Sting in his recent recording of lute songs ... Read More

9.I Hear You Calling Me - John McCormack sings 50 Irish Songs and Popular Ballads (2 CD Set) from: Asv Living Era March 09, 2004
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This is a most personal production. Ms. Schäfer produced the album itself, and her aesthetic is as intelligent, subtle, colorful, and moving as her singing. Her collaborator, the amazing pianist Eric Schneider, is a full partner in the music, and together they create a many-faceted atmosphere which combines some spoken verse and--well, not so much sound effects as sound impressions. The songs and spoken word are part of a romantic construct, a pairing of love and death with everything in between--passion, romance, renunciation, doubt, grief, an eerie serenity--the George Crumb setting of the Whitman verse,"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" still causes a frisson each time I hear it. The Purcell settings are some of Shakespeare's sonnets of romantic love, not unlike verses chosen by Sting in his recent recording of lute songs ... Read More

10.Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin from: Decca Import August 01, 2002
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There's a poignant cast to Matthias Goerne's voice that makes his fans swoon, and his Schone Mullerin is on the whole dreamy, inward, and sensitive, perhaps to a fault. I miss the young miller's unfettered joy at the beginning. Goerne sounds as if he's already foreseeing romantic disaster; in this regard he's the opposite of the robust, coltish Wunderlich. But there's no denying that he's a superior singer and completely devoted to Lieder, which is rare in this age of dwindling song recitals. I'm usually not a fan of his over-sensitive, rhythmically soft approach, but I found this CD appealing. Eric Schneider is no great shakes in the piano part (after all, Schubert's songs have attracted the likes of Brendel, Richter, Uchida, and Edwin Fischer), but Goerne can stand on his own. Adopting tempos a shade slower than normal, ... Read More

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