Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
Transcribing Mahler's five Rückert Lieder plus Wagner's five Wesendonck Lieder and Prelude and "Love-Death" from Tristan und Isolde for soprano plus piano quartet raises fascinating performance possibilities. Shorn of their orchestral forces, the transcriptions make the works available for chamber-sized ensembles, and one imagines hearing all manner of polyphonic lines and harmonic details with amazing clarity.
In that regard, this recording of pianist/composer Christian Favre's transcriptions of Mahler and Wagner by soprano Felicity Lott and the Quatuor Schumann does not disappoint. Start with the Tristan Prelude: though one at first misses the orchestral colors, the intensity and lucidity of the French ensemble's playing amply compensates for the loss. But the group's performance is compromised by English soprano Felicity Lott. One of the great English sopranos of the later years of the twentieth century, Lott's voice was not nearly what it had been when this recording was made in 2007. Here, Lott's tone is less luxurious and more restrained, her technique less virtuosic and more cautious, and her colors less nuanced and more brazen. Though her voice is still lovely in quieter passages, Lott seems to be straining in the climaxes. Thus, while the evanescent coda of Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" sounds suitably ethereal, the climaxes of his "Um Mitternacht" and Wagner's "Love-Death" seem weak, even puny. Captured in close, vivid sound by Aeon, this recording is worth hearing by anyone who already loves these works and is looking for fascinating new ways to perform them. But while they might be impressed by Favre's arrangements and the Quatuor Schumann's performances, they might also wish a different soprano had been engaged.
© TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From $10.83/month
Rückert Lieder (Gustav Mahler)
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Wesendonck Lieder (Richard Wagner)
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Félicity Lott, interprète - Quatuor Schumann, interprète - Richard Wagner, compositeur - Mathilde Wesendonck, auteur
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Félicity Lott, interprète - Quatuor Schumann, interprète - Richard Wagner, compositeur - Mathilde Wesendonck, auteur
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Tristan & Isolde (Richard Wagner)
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Felicity Lott, soprano - Quatuor Schumann
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Album review
Transcribing Mahler's five Rückert Lieder plus Wagner's five Wesendonck Lieder and Prelude and "Love-Death" from Tristan und Isolde for soprano plus piano quartet raises fascinating performance possibilities. Shorn of their orchestral forces, the transcriptions make the works available for chamber-sized ensembles, and one imagines hearing all manner of polyphonic lines and harmonic details with amazing clarity.
In that regard, this recording of pianist/composer Christian Favre's transcriptions of Mahler and Wagner by soprano Felicity Lott and the Quatuor Schumann does not disappoint. Start with the Tristan Prelude: though one at first misses the orchestral colors, the intensity and lucidity of the French ensemble's playing amply compensates for the loss. But the group's performance is compromised by English soprano Felicity Lott. One of the great English sopranos of the later years of the twentieth century, Lott's voice was not nearly what it had been when this recording was made in 2007. Here, Lott's tone is less luxurious and more restrained, her technique less virtuosic and more cautious, and her colors less nuanced and more brazen. Though her voice is still lovely in quieter passages, Lott seems to be straining in the climaxes. Thus, while the evanescent coda of Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" sounds suitably ethereal, the climaxes of his "Um Mitternacht" and Wagner's "Love-Death" seem weak, even puny. Captured in close, vivid sound by Aeon, this recording is worth hearing by anyone who already loves these works and is looking for fascinating new ways to perform them. But while they might be impressed by Favre's arrangements and the Quatuor Schumann's performances, they might also wish a different soprano had been engaged.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:16
- Main artists: Felicity Lott Quatuor Schumann
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: AEON
- Genre: Classical Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder
2007 Aeon 2007 Quatuor Schumann
Improve album informationWhy buy on Qobuz?
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalog with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.