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In Reply to: RE: Nobody has mentioned Mark Padmore? posted by bald2 on March 25, 2015 at 09:13:44
I must say that Padmore's Handel Arias CD, which I have, and which is very good, had not prepared me for his Dichterliebe....
Strange!
I have no idea what the take-away from that should be. Was Handel too formal for Padmore really to engage with? Was Schumann's proto-modernism more congenial to him? Did the challenge of singing in German make the difference? The period-correct piano?
I really like the Padmore but the Bär is even better, and I would not have known it except a library patron's family donated about (I am not joking) 1,800 LPs, and this guy collected LPs as long as they still made them, and he had lots of German ultra-audiophile DMM remastered classical vocal and opera, and the Bär was one and so I dialed it up on streaming and, holey schemoley... .
ATB,
jm
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A fellow I know has a live recording of Bar (a radio broadcast, I believe) on master tape and it is stunning...
I really like Jonas Kaufmann's Die Winterreise. It's the only performance of this cycle by a voice higher than a baritone that I like.
On the other hand, Christian Gerhaher leaves me cold. On the one occasion I heard him live (Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez), his top notes were weak and strained, and he seemed to be trying to puff out his voice somehow to make it seem bigger (shouldn't have been an issue in the sold-out, relatively small Severance Hall). This was recorded for DVD/CD, and I'm guessing that the performances of his that made it to the final issue were from other nights that week--voice was a little better, but still not interpretively interesting.
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