SACD, Weill, K (composer)
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New. Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer France (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin), Benjamin Herzl, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Hk Gruber
[Giunta] does amazingly well to make the translation (WH Auden and Chester Kallman) both audible and engaging. —
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Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher (tenors), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Florian Boesch (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy.... —
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Special offer. Kurt Weill: Orchestral Music
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremenl, Antony Beaumont
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Calefax & Cora Burggraaf – The Roaring Twenties
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano)
Calefax (reed quintet)
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…Ullmann has been imprisoned in the 'model' concentration camp at Terezín where he set three Poems by Hölderlin to music in 1944. …the shining clarity of Oelze's voice never fails to prickle... —
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Songs by six Greek composers and their German mentors
Fanie Antonelou (soprano), Kerstin Mörk (piano)
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Håkan Hardenberger: Both Sides, Now
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito
Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny... —
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The SCO brings out the bittersweet melodies in the first movement [of the Fantaisie Symphonique] and displays restraint in the expansive Largo...Excerpts [from Der Silbersee] are featured here,... —
