Requiem: The Pity of War
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Label: Erato
Cat No: 9029566156
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th October 2018
Contents
Works
Songs (6) from A Shropshire LadDes Knaben Wunderhorn
Walt Whitman Songs (4)
Artists
Ian Bostridge (tenor)Antonio Pappano (piano)
Works
Songs (6) from A Shropshire LadDes Knaben Wunderhorn
Walt Whitman Songs (4)
Artists
Ian Bostridge (tenor)Antonio Pappano (piano)
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Reviews
At the heart of the matter there's A Shropshire Lad by Butterworth, which is well balanced by some love songs by the even shorter-lived German soldier Rudi Stephan, killed in 1915. Thought-provoking and often memorable stuff. David Mellor
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression. Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push Bostridge to his limits in places, though the atmosphere of sensual introversion is finely sustained. A Shropshire Lad is all half-tones and hushed retrospection as the shadows gradually darken towards the finality of the closing song. ... A disc of great power and intelligence, it’s both haunting and undeniably strong. Tim Ashley
Putting together a song recital to mark today’s Armistice centenary is no easy task – few art songs came directly from the horrors of the trenches – but the work of two composers killed in the conflict, one English, one German, finds its way on to a moving new release from tenor Ian Bostridge, with the Royal Opera’s Antonio Pappano at the piano. George Butterworth’s settings of AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad are well known and welcome here, but not so familiar is Rudi Stephan’s startlingly sensuous Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied, a cycle of erotic love songs far more radical than Butterworth’s nostalgic pastoralism. Stephen Pritchard
Bostridge and Pappano revel in the folk-like Butterworth numbers and the heady Romanticism (recalling Strauss, even early Berg) of Stephan's cycle. ... Bostridge's distinctive, idiosyncratic style lends more than a hint of rage to Mahler and Weill's anti-miltaristic irony. Hugh Canning (Album of the Week)Error on this page? Let us know here
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