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"SCHUBERT LIEDER, VOLUME II".(Review)
Ian Bostridge
[] "SCHUBERT LIEDER, VOLUME II" With Drake, piano. Texts and translations. EMI 57141
Recitals of Schubert songs often fall into one of two categories. There are many where the singer is clearly in charge (this is not automatically a bad situation, as a delightful DG album by James Levine and Kathleen Battle has shown), and some where the pianist controls the interpretation. The great pleasure of this new release is the utter unity between Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake. (This is the second volume of Schubert songs from Bostridge and Drake; the first, EMI CDC 56347, was released in 1998.) Their performance of "Die Gotter Griechenlands" shows their considerable strengths. It's not one of the composer's two-hundred-or-so most recorded songs, with its odd repetitions of text and subtle momentum. But with Drake setting the desolate, devastating scene and Bostridge floating in with pure tone and carefully shaped phrases, it comes across as a neglected masterpiece.
This recording is full of such revelations. The artists begin with six settings of poems by Johannes Mayrhofer, who is so neglected now that he doesn't warrant entries in The Ring of Words or the New Grove II The songs are carefully grouped ...
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