Сhristoph Pregardien, Michael Gees - Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (2008) [SACD]
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BAND/ARTIST: Сhristoph Pregardien, Michael Gees
- Title: Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin
- Year Of Release: 2008
- Label: Challenge Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: DSD64 image (*.iso) / 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
- Total Time: 01:01:38
- Total Size: 3,58 GB (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
German tenor Christoph Prégardien has recorded Schubert’s seminal song cycle Die Schöne Mullerin before, with Andreas Staier for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi in 1991. One immediate difference in this recording for Challenge Classics is that Michael Gees serves as accompanist & plays a modern piano rather than a period fortepiano, as did Staier. Moreover, this SACD recording of Die Schöne Mullerin & the early digital DHM are worlds apart; the sound on the DHM is distant, recessed & rather clattery, whereas the Challenge Classics recording is a huge improvement. Prégardien’s voice is attractively centred, & Gees’ piano is captured in a warm perspective that cloaks & envelops the singer. It’s a great sound; as Prégardien’s voice soars, the piano rolls through both right & left channels as waves in a babbling brook, echoing the very sentiments expressed in Wilhelm Müller’s pre-Romantic texts. Prégardien’s interpretation is much the same as it was Staier, though one could argue in the Challenge Classics recording he achieves a greater emotional projection, not to mention a more lightweight delivery in the tenor range; in the DHM recording he had more of a tendency to borrow from the baritone range in order to gain more heft.
That’s not to throw the DHM, still available in August 2008, under the bus; it remains a very good performance, particularly in the domain of versions with a period instrument keyboard. However, this version is clearly superlative; Prégardien has grown with this work in the intervening time & it shows. This is a sensitive reading of Die Schöne Mullerin demonstrating complete integration with the material, in addition to embracing a generally more mainstream kind of performance idiom than the earlier recording. Challenge Classics’ Die Schöne Mullerin with Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees is a recording worthy of taking pride of place on the shelf alongside such “classic” versions as those by Richard Crooks, Aksel Schiøtz, & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, & is in considerably better recorded sound than any of them.
~ allmusicguide
Tracks:
01 Das Wandern 02:29.91
02 Wohin? 02:27.85
03 Halt 01:33.96
04 Danksagung an den Bach 02:12.72
05 Am Feierabend 02:51.04
06 Der Neugierige 04:19.24
07 Ungeduld 02:51.85
08 Morgengruss 04:09.19
09 Des Mullers Blumen 03:26.44
10 Tranenregen 04:32.44
11 Mein 02:26.72
12 Pause 03:54.79
13 Mit dem grunen Lautenbande 01:59.57
14 Der Jager 01:11.13
15 Eifersucht und Stolz 01:46.88
16 Die Liebe Farbe 04:19.36
17 Die bose Farbe 02:07.71
18 Trockne Blumen 03:24.15
19 Der Muller und der Bach 03:38.12
20 Des Baches Wiegenlied 05:56.88
Personnel:
Tenor – Christoph Pregardien
Piano – Michael Gees
That’s not to throw the DHM, still available in August 2008, under the bus; it remains a very good performance, particularly in the domain of versions with a period instrument keyboard. However, this version is clearly superlative; Prégardien has grown with this work in the intervening time & it shows. This is a sensitive reading of Die Schöne Mullerin demonstrating complete integration with the material, in addition to embracing a generally more mainstream kind of performance idiom than the earlier recording. Challenge Classics’ Die Schöne Mullerin with Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees is a recording worthy of taking pride of place on the shelf alongside such “classic” versions as those by Richard Crooks, Aksel Schiøtz, & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, & is in considerably better recorded sound than any of them.
~ allmusicguide
Tracks:
01 Das Wandern 02:29.91
02 Wohin? 02:27.85
03 Halt 01:33.96
04 Danksagung an den Bach 02:12.72
05 Am Feierabend 02:51.04
06 Der Neugierige 04:19.24
07 Ungeduld 02:51.85
08 Morgengruss 04:09.19
09 Des Mullers Blumen 03:26.44
10 Tranenregen 04:32.44
11 Mein 02:26.72
12 Pause 03:54.79
13 Mit dem grunen Lautenbande 01:59.57
14 Der Jager 01:11.13
15 Eifersucht und Stolz 01:46.88
16 Die Liebe Farbe 04:19.36
17 Die bose Farbe 02:07.71
18 Trockne Blumen 03:24.15
19 Der Muller und der Bach 03:38.12
20 Des Baches Wiegenlied 05:56.88
Personnel:
Tenor – Christoph Pregardien
Piano – Michael Gees
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