Musik / solosang

Italienisches Liederbuch


Anmeldelser (19)


Klassik heute

d. 17. sep. 2010

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Clemens Höslinger

d. 17. sep. 2010

"Diesem reifen und erfahrenen Sänger steht eine junge, aufstrebende Kraft zur Seite: die Sopranistin Julia Kleiter, die es trotz kurzer Wirkungszeit schon zu bedeutendem Rang gebracht hat ... Hilko Dummer am Klavier erfüllt die wichtige dritte Position bei diesem gelungenen Hugo-Wolf-Konzert. Ein mitfühlender Musiker, der die komplizierten, oft regelrecht disharmonischen Tonfolgen mit aller Intensität nachzeichnet".


AllMusic

2011

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Stephen Eddins

2011

" Erdmann has an immaculate tone that's on the bright side, and a warmer, more spacious ambience would have made it even more attractive. She is absolutely secure technically, but her performances don't have the variety of subtle shadings as Gerhaher's. Neither singer particularly projects the warmth that at least some of the songs seem to call for. Huber's playing is nuanced and rhythmically supple, but the recording makes the piano's sound unforgivingly dry".


Presto classical

d. 11. jan. 2019

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Katherine Cooper

d. 11. jan. 2019

"Recording of the week: Kaufmann spends the bulk of his time playing the straight man to Damrau's perky super-soubrette, and he does it quite beautifully, making liberal use of his trademark weightless pianissimos and dark, covered sound. Damrau, meanwhile, is on fantastically sassy form ... But it's Deutsch who frequently has the last word thanks to Wolf's exquisite little postludes, and he delivers it with an understated wryness that all but steals the show".


MusicWeb international

2022 August

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Göran Forsling (f. 1942)

2022 August

"The Italian Songbook consists of two groups of songs. The first group, consisting of 22 songs, was set in 1890-1891 and the second group with 24 songs in 1896. Strictly speaking it isn't a cycle ... The two singers are well-matched ... The first thing I observed was the sensitive playing of Joseph Middleton, pliable and perceptive. Secondly I noted Carolyn Sampson's girlish tone in Auch kleine Dinge, and her soft and inward reading ... When Allan Clayton made his entrance, he at once convinced me: here he displayed his armoury of nuances that had enthralled me on the Liszt disc, his beautiful pianissimo ... Among more recent offerings, Sampson and Clayton are certainly among the top contenders".


Presto classical

d. 5. aug. 2022

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Katherine Cooper

d. 5. aug. 2022

"Recording of the week: Clayton and Sampson recorded their songs in separate sessions (and with different sound-engineers) almost a year apart, but that scarcely registers ... Clayton in particular takes full advantage of the in camera setting, digging deep into the texts and making some bold interpretative choices. Sampson, too, is totally attuned to the cycle's shifts between the sacred and the profane, and Middleton's brief moments in the spotlight would be worth the price of the recording on their own".


BBC music magazine

2012 June

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Hilary Finch

2012 June

"This is neither the most stylish nor the most beautiful singing to be found in this repertoire ... I often long for more subtlety from Stone, more attitude from McGreevy. But their performances have a simple integrity about them, and are everywhere perceptively and intensely musically accompanied by Sholto Kynoch".


Fono Forum

2010 November

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Christoph Vratz

2010 November

"Kleiter besitzt einen wunderbar wachen Sinn für diese Miniaturen ... Auch Christoph Prégardiens gewohnt textverständlicher Vortrag ist erfreulich unmanieriert".


Diapason

2011 juillet-août

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Hélène Cao

2011 juillet-août


Diapason

2019 février

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Jean-Philippe Grosperrin

2019 février


Fono Forum

2019 Februar

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Johannes Schmitz

2019 Februar

"Von den schwersten Opernbrocken zu Hugo Wolfs Miniaturen des Italienischen Liederbuchs zu springen, das ist für sich genommen schon bemerkenswert. Hier wie dort ist der Heldentenor Jonas Kaufmann auf dem Punkt. Sein natürlicher Umgang mit der Sprache, gepaart mit der fest geführten Sonorität seiner dunklen Stimme, macht jedes der kleine Lieder zu einer kuriosen oder ernsten Geschichte. Bei Diana Damrau hingegen finden Text und Stimme anfangs nicht ganz zusammen ... Helmut Deutsch spielt mit unsentimentalem, grossem Klang und ist so das atmosphärische Zentrum der Interpretation".


BBC music magazine

2019 April

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Natasha Loges

2019 April

"Choral & song choice: Who can resist Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch? ... Diana Damrau evokes each scenario magnificently, savouring every word in a delightfully extrovert performance which sparkles and thrills. Slightly more subdued, Jonas Kaufmann offers an intimate and lyrical approach as an attractive counterpart ... We're presented with a welcome alternation of moods which beautifully showcases these musicians' enormous expressive versatility".


BBC music magazine

2022 October

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Christopher Cook (musikanmelder)

2022 October

"Wise musicians perform Wolf's 46 'Italian' songs in the order in which they were written. Happily, Joseph Middleton and his singers Carolyn Sampson and Allan Clayton are among the wise. Sung in order, the cycle's emotional drama is thrown into relief with a pair of lovers fighting to make sense of their feelings ... Sampson sings the final song cataloguing all of her other lovers with cruel abandon, positively shouting the line 'And ten in Castiglione'. Alas for the suitor so often overwhelmed by his feelings for the woman! Allan Clayton's wonder at her beauty is palpable in 'Gesegnet sei, durch den die Welt entstund'".


Fono Forum

2022 Dezember

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Christoph Vratz

2022 Dezember

"Es ist eine Miniatur, im eigentlichen Sinne. Ein kurzes Lied, das vom Wert, von den Kostbarkeiten des Kleinen handelt. Sopranistin Carolyn Sampson wird dem Reiz dieser musikalischen Perle in allem gerecht, wie überhaupt sie grosse Liedkunst bei der Einspielung von Hugo Wolfs "Italienische Liederbuch" liefert ... Das liegt auch am Pianisten Joseph Middleton, der die unterschiedlichen Klangfarben genau mit den Vokalisten abstimmt ... Tenor Allan Clayton hat den männlichen Part dieses Liederbuchs übernommen. Er gestaltet erfreulich textverständlich ... So ist eine in allen wesentlichen Punkten stimmige Aufnahme entstanden".


The gramophone

2012 September

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David Patrick Stearns

2012 September

"Consistent success in any given set isn't likely but one can at least hope for better than what's heard in this Italianisches Liederbuch ... The problem isn't just vocal wear but interpretative exhaustion from encompassing all of the different worlds each song sketches so concisely ... One can do much better elsewhere, even if there's no clear-cut classic recording".


Jyllands-posten

d. 24. okt. 2002

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d. 24. okt. 2002


The gramophone

2011 August

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Richard Wigmore

2011 August

"Vurdering: G (Gramophone recommends)" - "While not ousting the versions cited above, this new Italian Songbook deserves a place alongside them, above all for Gerhaher's consummate, unostentatious artistry".


Jyllands-posten

d. 29. dec. 2003

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d. 29. dec. 2003


The gramophone

2019 February

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Neil Fisher (musikanmelder)

2019 February

"Of the two singers, the bright-voiced Damrau is the more nuanced and precise with text ... Kaufmann, husky and intense, has less in his Lieder toolkit but he is completely committed to the material ... He really excels as the writing grows more Wagnerian ... The expressive glue is Deutsch, with his unsentimental probing of Wolf's ruthlessly concise writing and often devastating delivery of those fascinating, heart-stopping cadences".


The gramophone

2022 October

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Hugo Shirley

2022 October

"Editor's choice: Hugo Wolf's 'Italian songbook' has attracted many great pairings of singers in the past. This new recording, however, makes a good claim to join the finest in the catalogue ... Choosing to present the songs in published order, they offer a performance to cherish: fresh, intelligent and beautifully sung and played ... All in all, this adds up to a beautiful new recording of a wonderful work. Highly recommended".