COMPANY: EMI
ARTIST: Leif Ove Andsnes
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Franz Schubert

Product: 094638432128

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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor D958, fragments & lieder

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor)

Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828)

Schubert: Allegretto, D346 in C major
Schubert: Allegretto, D900 in C minor
Schubert: Andantino, D348 in C Major
Schubert: Harfenspieler I 'Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt', D478
Schubert: Harfenspieler II 'An die Türen will ich schleichen, D479
Schubert: Harfenspieler III 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass', D480
Schubert: Johanna Sebus (Fragment) D728 (Goethe)
Schubert: Lebensmuth, D937
Schubert: Pflicht und Liebe D467 (Gotter)
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
Schubert: Totengräbers Heimwehe D842 (Craigher)

May 2007

Leif Ove Andsnes here deals beautifully with the Sonata itself. Andsnes's performance is smooth and warmly expressive, with the final tarantella going at a galloping lick. Bostridge, too, is in fine form, evincing a tremulous vulnerability in Schubert's settings of three poems of Romantic alienation: his singing suggests a great surrounding stillness.

July 2007

…Andsnes opens proceedings with a superlative account of the C minor Sonata… If there is a more exuberant recording of the final tarantella I have yet to hear it. I love the heroic tone Bostridge brings to Lebensmut ("Courage for Living") and Johanna Sebus ("The dam bursts, the fields roar...") in performances of wonderful freshness and spontaneity. Bravo.

This partnership is one of the most inspired of record-company matchmakings: the two musicians really do test and try each other at every turn, as well as being mutually supportive