Mythos
Franz Schubert
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Reviews (3)
The guardian
d. 18. July 2012
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 18. July 2012
"The performances throughout the set, all of them accompanied by pianist Urs Liska, vary from the thoroughly effective to the very fine indeed, with the baritone Konrad Jarnot particularly impressive ... But it's the sheer comprehensiveness of this set that makes it so fascinating; many of the songs in it would be hard to source elsewhere".
Classical net
2012
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Mark Sealey
2012
"You'll have to wait until almost the end of the first CD of this excellent four-CD set ... to hear music that you'd usually associate with the new ground plowed by Schoenberg. Most of the songs on the first CD could have been written by Hugo Wolf, or Schumann, Fauré or even Schubert! ... There is little clinical about these performances, though. They're all respectful and engaged, if a little formal. The quality of the singing is generally high ... Jens Peters Jakobsen's texts, which became those of the Gurrelieder, are of particular interest. They are sung particularly well by Diener and tenor Markus Schäfer ... This set has a lot going for it, then. Not only is it as complete as anything else available. It's been carefully conceived, imaginatively executed and well presented. There are songs here that are unavailable elsewhere".
International record review
2013 February
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Richard Whitehouse
2013 February
"[Jarnot's] warmly mellifluous baritone is finely deployed in a group of nine posthumous songs ... Barainsky effortlessly conveys the insinuating charms of Colly's 'Jedem das Seine' and Frank Wedekind's 'Galathea' ... Throughout this set, the sound ... has admirable focus and immediacy as well as an exemplary sense of perspective between voice and piano ... A release which is mandatory listening for anyone who wishes to assess Schoenberg's place within the Lieder tradition".