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Bernarda Fink.(SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben; Lenau-Lieder; Songs)
* "SCHUMANN" Frauenliebe und -leben; Lenau-Lieder; Songs. With Vignoles, piano. Texts and translations. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901753
From Lehmann and Ferrier to Ludwig, Baker and von Otter, Frauenliebe und -leben has never lacked excellent recordings, but Bernarda Fink's performance can stand beside the best. It takes just the exquisitely etched opening of "Seit ich ihn gesehen" to conclude that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano, consistently remarkable in Baroque repertoire, has found an ideal niche in lieder as well.
The voice, burnished gold in timbre and of superb clarity, retains its loveliness at any extreme of dynamics. Fink traverses Frauenliebe with a wide tonal palette, equally persuasive in the wonder of first love and the bleakness of loss. (The final song is quietly devastating, sung almost entirely in "straight" tone.) Fink sings the eight songs in an intimate, confiding manner, and with a directness that is rare and treasurable. This seems especially welcome in a cycle frequently sabotaged by emotional excess.
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- Frauenliebe und -Leben
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Frauenliebe und -Leben ( Woman's Love and Life ) . Song-cycle for sop. or mez. and pf., Op.42, by Schumann, being settings of 8 poems by Adalbert von Chamisso. Comp. 1840.
- Actors Christine Schaefer as Theodora (L) and Bernarda Fink as...
- Picture from: Getty Images SCHAADFOTO July 21, 2009 700+ words
...Images 07-21-2009 Actors Christine Schaefer as Theodora (L) and Bernarda Fink as... Full Size JPG (2418 KB) Actors Christine Schaefer as Theodora (L) and Bernarda Fink as Irene perform in "Theodora" of Georg Friedrich Haendel during...
- Bernarda Fink/Roger Vignoles Dvorak: Lieder.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) May 11, 2004 700+ words
Byline: STEPHEN PETTITT ARGENTINA-born mezzo soprano Bernarda Fink has Czech forebears and close associations with Prague. Her voice is beautifully suited to Dvorak, intimate, mellow, but with...
- Music: A Fink to a Flop.(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: National Review NORDLINGER, JAY April 7, 2003 700+ words
...with some singers? Not long ago, Bernarda Fink appeared in New York with the Freiburg...may wonder about the nationality of Bernarda Fink. As her bio puts it, she "was born...one person, no matter how great. Bernarda Fink, a mezzo-soprano, is distinguished...
- Antonin Dvorak.
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Stehlik, Lubos January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Dvorak Svata Ludmila - St Ludmila op. 71 B 144 Eva Urbanova, Bernarda Fink, Stanislav Matis, Ales Briscein, Peter Mikulas, The Prague...Eva Urbanova is an ideal Ludmila, and in the case of the Bernarda Fink with her celebrated voice we can only regret that Dvorak...
- Poignant tribute to the tragic genius of Schumann.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) March 28, 2006 700+ words
Byline: NICK KIMBERLEY CLASSICAL Bernarda Fink/ Roger Vignoles Queen Elizabeth Hall ROBERT SCHUMANN died...voice: I could sing myself to death", mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink delivered a feeling performance (sensitively accompanied...
- Opera
- Newspaper article from: The Irish Times COLMAN MORRISSEY July 31, 2009 700+ words
This week's opera CDs reviewed Soloists: Bernarda Fink, Richard Croft, Sunhae Im, Alexandrina Pendatchanska...complete form. The soloists are fully committed, with Bernarda Fink as a memorable Idamante, Alexandrina Pendatchanska an...
- Marjana Lipovsek
- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F Paul August 1, 1996 700+ words
...ease. Her plainspoken account of "Waldesgesprach" and "Auf einer Berg" grows more persuasive with repeated hearings. Frauenliebe und Leben, which closes the program, is similarly subdued, but while the singer's lack of sentimentality is refreshing...