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Christian Gerhaher
Schoeck: Notturno
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (5) - Disc #1
1. Ruhig
2. Presto
3. Unruhig bewegt
4. Ruhig und leise
5. Rasch und kräftig

CD Details

All Artists: Christian Gerhaher
Title: Schoeck: Notturno
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: ECM New Series
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 11/17/2009
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028947669951

Synopsis

Album Description

A leading composer of his native Switzerland, Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) has never acquired a stable reputation outside the German-speaking world. This should change now with Notturno, a very personal work which serves as an intimate confession after an unhappy extra-marital love affair. The highly differentiated interpretation by baritone Christian Gerhaher - one of the most distinguished young German "Lied" singers and a former disciple of Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau - and the Grammy-nominated Rosamunde Quartett offers a strong plea for Schoeck's expressive music and sheds a probing light on his artistic preoccupation with the dark abysses of human existence.

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CD Reviews

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Mr Fox the Elder | UK | 01/07/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Othmar Schoeck is a composer whose work deserves to be better known. This performance of his beautiful Notturno by the excellent young baritone, Christian Gerhaher, with the Rosamunde Quartett will certainly help to bring Schoeck to the fore again. Gerhaher has a wonderfully expressive voice and a warm tone, perfect for these poems of pain and loss. The ambient ECM recording creates an atmosphere of compelling intimacy. This disc was quite rightly included in Alex Ross' ten best discs of 2009. Anyone interested in Schoeck should read Chris Walton's recent biography, Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works (Eastman Studies in Music), published by the University of Rochester Press."