Lieder [Import]

Schubert (Artist), Auger (Artist), Orkis (Artist), Allen (Artist), Vignoles (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 5, 1998)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B00000632K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,785 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Allen Winterreise, February 22, 2000

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Nediva (West Newton, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lieder (Audio CD)

I have begun to collect WINTERREISE recordings, and am amazed how many are in print. Of the baritones, I prefer Thomas Allen, even beyond much of Fischer-Dieskau. Allen's voice is richer and more expressive (yes!) than Fischer-Dieskau's in many of the songs. Further, for fans, he is still singing beautifully, as well as being charming, in concert (recently at the 92nd St. Y in NY City). Since I think of Winterreise as a mini-opera, as well as one of the most important works in Western music, Allen, an accomplished opera-singer, is a superb choice.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A strongly unified performance, October 8, 2006

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Tom Lawrence "tomtrumpet" (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lieder (Audio CD)

This is perhaps my favorite recording of Winterreise, if only because there is a strong sense that the performers are on the same page. It is almost as if a stage director had focused the psychological details of each song and the shape of the cycle as a whole. Thomas Allen's slightly gruff voice works well in depicting the social outcast and Roger Vignoles' piano work has a clarity of specifics. I might quibble with a few slow tempos in the second half of the opus, but the pair obviously agree on the dramatic interpretation being put forth.

(Contrast this to the Thomas Hampson/Wolfgang Sawallisch recording. Maestro S gives an intimate parlor reading of the work while Hampson leads a full-blown operatic assault.)

This being a double CD set, you get the added treat of Arleen Auger singing a recital of some Schubert favorites. All in all a superb value.