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Christian Gerhaher|Romantische Arien / Airs romantiques (Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Nicolaï)

Romantische Arien / Airs romantiques (Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Nicolaï)

Christian Gerhaher (baryton) - Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Bavaroise - Daniel Harding

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German baritone Christian Gerhaher has recorded lieder, and his fundamentally gentle, intimate, moderate-sized voice is suited to that genre. Here, however, he steps it up successfully to early Romantic opera, from Schubert up to Wagner's Tannhäuser and Otto Nicolai. If you're wondering about the two separate Schubert operas, that gives you an idea of the value of this vocal-orchestral recital: it touches on some very unfamiliar music and generally does a good job bringing it to life. Schubert's 1823 opera Alfonso und Estrella, not performed until it was revived by Liszt in 1854, has been recorded, but the excerpt from Der Graf von Gleichen, sketched out at the end of Schubert's life and left unfinished (the realization here is by Richard Dünser, made in the 1990s) is a much rarer animal. This is the highlight of the album; in Gerhaher's hands, the aria "O Himmel ... Mein Weib, O Gott, mein süßer Knabe" emerges as a real piece of Schubert's broad and harmonically pathbreaking late style. Another comparative rarity is the excerpt from Schumann's opera Genoveva, usually accounted the great failure of Schumann's later years; Gerhaher gives the excerpt "Ja wart' du bis zum jüngsten Tag" a spiky quality that is quite Wagnerian in its free speech cadences. The more melodic music from Otto Nicolai's Die Heimkehr des Verbannten, also not common on recordings, provides an effective foil. Gerhaher's voice has many surface pleasures, but his accomplishment here is to make the listener want to undertake a fresh hearing of the operas involved. A fine outing from the on-a-roll Sony Classical label, nicely recorded.

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Romantische Arien / Airs romantiques (Wagner, Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Nicolaï)

Christian Gerhaher

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1
Blick' ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise (Ansprache des Wolfram, 2. Akt aus: Tannhäuser WW 70)
00:06:09

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Richard Wagner, Composer - Richard Wagner, Librettist - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

2
O Himmel... Mein Weib, o Gott, mein süßer Knabe (Rezitativ und Cavatine des Grafen, 1. Akt aus: Der Graf von Gleichen)
00:06:37

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Franz Schubert, Composer - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Richard Dünser, Composer - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Eduard von Bauernfeld, Librettist - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

3
Ja, wart' du bis zum jüngsten Tag (Rezitativ, Lied und Duett des Siegfried und Golo, 3. Akt aus: Genoveva Op. 81)
00:10:52

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Robert Schumann, Composer - Robert Schumann, Librettist - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

4
Norton! Du bist es, der mit Frevler Wuth (Szene und Arie des Edmund, 2. Akt aus: Die Heimkehr des Verbannten)
00:07:04

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Otto Nicolai, Composer - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Siegfried Kapper, Librettist - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor - Maximilian Hornung, Cello - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

5
Sei mir gegrüßt, o Sonne (Arie des Froila, 1. Akt aus: Alfonso und Estrella D 732)
00:08:42

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Franz Schubert, Composer - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Franz von Schober, Librettist - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

6
O sing mir, Vater... - Der Jäger ruhte hingegossen (Rezitativ und Arie des Alfonso und Froila, 2. Akt aus: Alfonso und Estrella D 732)
00:07:06

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Franz Schubert, Composer - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Franz von Schober, Librettist - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

7
Wie Todesahnung - O, du mein holder Abendstern (Szene des Wolfram, 3. Akt aus: Tannhäuser WW 70)
00:06:21

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Richard Wagner, Composer - Richard Wagner, Librettist - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

8
Wo berg' ich mich? (Rezitativ und Arie des Lysiart, 2. Akt aus Euryanthe Op. 81)
00:08:39

Christian Gerhaher, Baritone - Carl Maria von Weber, Composer - Daniel Harding, Conductor - Helmina von Chézy, Librettist - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Performer - Wilhelm Meister, Producer - Peter Urban, Recording Engineer - Bernadette Rüb, Editor - Jörg Heilmann, Assistant Engineer

(P) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment

Album review

German baritone Christian Gerhaher has recorded lieder, and his fundamentally gentle, intimate, moderate-sized voice is suited to that genre. Here, however, he steps it up successfully to early Romantic opera, from Schubert up to Wagner's Tannhäuser and Otto Nicolai. If you're wondering about the two separate Schubert operas, that gives you an idea of the value of this vocal-orchestral recital: it touches on some very unfamiliar music and generally does a good job bringing it to life. Schubert's 1823 opera Alfonso und Estrella, not performed until it was revived by Liszt in 1854, has been recorded, but the excerpt from Der Graf von Gleichen, sketched out at the end of Schubert's life and left unfinished (the realization here is by Richard Dünser, made in the 1990s) is a much rarer animal. This is the highlight of the album; in Gerhaher's hands, the aria "O Himmel ... Mein Weib, O Gott, mein süßer Knabe" emerges as a real piece of Schubert's broad and harmonically pathbreaking late style. Another comparative rarity is the excerpt from Schumann's opera Genoveva, usually accounted the great failure of Schumann's later years; Gerhaher gives the excerpt "Ja wart' du bis zum jüngsten Tag" a spiky quality that is quite Wagnerian in its free speech cadences. The more melodic music from Otto Nicolai's Die Heimkehr des Verbannten, also not common on recordings, provides an effective foil. Gerhaher's voice has many surface pleasures, but his accomplishment here is to make the listener want to undertake a fresh hearing of the operas involved. A fine outing from the on-a-roll Sony Classical label, nicely recorded.

© TiVo

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