A Romantic Songbook

Thomas Quasthoff - A Romantic Songbook

A Romantic Songbook
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Artist: Thomas Quasthoff
Composer: Carl Loewe
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Robert Schumann
Composer: Richard Strauss
Composer: Hugo Wolf
Composer: Hamilton Harty
Performer: Justus Zeyen
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
  1. Fruhlingsglaube D 686
  2. Heidenroslein D 257
  3. Die Forelle D 550
  4. Im Fruhling D 882
  5. Auf Der Bruck D 853
  6. Im Abendrot D 799
  7. Ungeduld (Die Schone Mullerin D 795, No.7)
  8. Belsatzar Op.57
  9. 1.Widmung
  10. 2.Freisinn
  11. 24.Du Bist Wie Eine Blume
  12. Fruhlingsglaube (12 Lieder Op.9, No.8)
  13. Auf Flugein Des Gesanges (6 Lieder Op.34, No.2)
  14. Auf Einer Wanderung
  15. Der Genesene An Die Hoffnung
  16. Storchenbotschaft
  17. Odins Meeresritt Op.118
  18. Herr Oluf Op.2, No.2
  19. Tom Der Reimer Op.135a
  20. 1.Zueignung
  21. 8.Allerseelen
  22. 3.Heimliche Aufforderung
  23. 4.Morgen!
  24. Danny Boy

Music reviews of A Romantic Songbook

Music Review: Quasthoff's best release to date
Rating: 5 Stars

I may just be a sucker for these songs, but I really think this is the best solo recording Quasthoff has made so far: some of his other recordings suffer from an improper balance between piano and voice (like his WINTERREISE or SCHWANENGESANG), but here, Justus Zeyen's contribution feels an equal partner; each interpretation is fresh and vivacious; and the program is put together well. This is also the first time I've felt a recording comes close to the electric experience of hearing Quasthoff live; the sound quality captures everything very intimately.

Then again, this might be my personal love of these song talking. One review I've read of this recording refers to it condescendingly as a "Lieder's greatest hits" CD with "all dessert and no meat". But who cares: Schubert's "Im Fruehling" and "Ungeduld"; Schumann's "Belsatzar," "Widmung," and "Du bist wie eine Blume"; and Strauss' "Zueignung" and "Morgen!" are at the top of my list of favorite songs of all time, and to have them all sung so beautifully on one CD makes this a great CD for me. Plus, these "greatest hits" are also songs that ideally suit Quasthoff's artistry--so what's wrong with a CD that shows a singer's mastery in this repertoire?

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Thomas Quasthoff is unique as singer and artist. His voice, always astonishingly powerful, has over the years acquired an ever-growing warmth, purity, range, and expressiveness, and his extraordinary wealth of dynamics, colors, nuances, and inflections is truly amazing. He uses these for instant changes of mood and atmosphere, while his seemingly unlimited breath control lets him spin endless lines and phrases. In these songs, all these qualities are on full display; indeed, Quasthoff admits choosing them with this in mind. However, the program is beautiful, judiciously varied and contrasted, combining popular favorites like Schubert's "Trout" and "Heidenröslein" with unfamiliar gems by his unjustly forgotten contemporary Carl Loewe, who wrote hundreds of splendid ballads. Of special interest are two very different settings of the same Ludwig Uhland poem, "Frühlingsglaube" ("Faith in Spring"), one by a very young Mendelssohn, the other by a mature Schubert. The former overflows with youthful exuberance, joyousness, and ecstasy; the latter breathes lyrical serenity. In a rather unusual reading, Quasthoff starts it with a sense of tremulously hopeful anticipation, gradually becoming more confident and finally blossoming out into radiant affirmation. Otherwise, the Schubert group is least convincing: always sensitive to the fusion of text and music, Quasthoff, perhaps seduced by the resources of his vocal palette, indulges in fussy, excessive "word-painting" and loses the songs' essential simplicity. However, in the more complex, dramatic, declamatory songs, this works wonderfully. Loewe's ballads, in which he impersonates three distinct characters, and Schumann's "Belsatzar" become veritable operas, and he regains a moving simplicity in the more lyrical songs, like Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song" and a Strauss group. Justus Zeyden is an exemplary collaborator, but even he is defeated by the long sustained notes in Strauss' "Morgen!" where the violin obbligato is sadly missing. In "Danny Boy," Quasthoff turns himself into a very persuasive American-style crooner. --Edith Eisler

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