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Schubert: Winterreise.(Sound Recording Review)
[] Goerne; Brendel, piano. Texts and translations. Decca B0002008-02
This is Matthias Goerne's second recording of Schubert's unremittingly melancholy portrait of rejection and alienation; the first was for Hyperion's complete Schubert edition in 1997. The gifted baritone creates a portrait of a gentlemanly lover, more bewildered than tortured by his beloved's change of heart. His tone is contemplative--even his diction is gentle--but his artfulness keeps him from sounding really damaged, and it seems that he's not so much working through his emotions as describing them. Goerne's timbre is distinctive, velvety and cavernous, with a unique throb that may not be to everyone's liking. His colorations, which include beautiful but self-conscious pianissimos, can fall into a predictable pattern. The over-hushedness he finds in songs such as "Rast" and "Fruhlingstraum" creates a mood suggestive of despair and detachment without tugging at the heartstrings. When he unleashes the full power of his resonant middle and lower register, as in "Ruckblick," "Der sturmische Morgen" and the last line of "Wasserflut," it's exciting and fearsome. Goerne is restrained in "Erstarrung," revealing the numbness but not ...
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