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5.0 out of 5 stars
A little night music,
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This review is from: Schoeck: Notturno (Audio CD)
Othmar Schoeck is a composer whose work deserves to be better known. This performance of his beautiful Notturno by the excellent young baritone, Christian Gerhaher, with the Rosamunde Quartett will certainly help to bring Schoeck to the fore again. Gerhaher has a wonderfully expressive voice and a warm tone, perfect for these poems of pain and loss. The ambient ECM recording creates an atmosphere of compelling intimacy. This disc was quite rightly included in Alex Ross' ten best discs of 2009. Anyone interested in Schoeck should read Chris Walton's recent biography, Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works (Eastman Studies in Music), published by the University of Rochester Press.
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This review is from: Schoeck: Notturno (Audio CD)
A wonderful example of late Middle-European romanticism. Schoeck is completely new to me. His methods may have been conservative but his compositional voice is distinctive. Works for voice and string quartet are rare but the combination works wonderfully here. The texts chosen (Nikolaus Lenau and Gottfried Keller, provided with translations) are expressionistic and the mood somber and autumnal. Gerhaher, whose presence drew me to this disk, is recorded with a bit more distance than elsewhere but the overall sound is excellent.There are some more Shoeck songs on a recital CD by Martina Jankova. Otherwise, Shoeck's Spotify footprint is small. |
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Schoeck: Notturno by Christian Gerhaher (Audio CD - 2009)
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