Thanks very much for this. I only had a low-quality excerpt from years back, at which time I collected some reviews of the whole disk in hopes of finding it some day. I include two here:
Reviews :
BBC music magazine : David Nice
This peerless collection now returns in even more beautifully hallowed remasterings and with both Baker-Barbirolli recordings of the Rückert setting ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ – its reverie is more inward, its anguished recollections of the hurly-burly world more intense in the first, Hallé version not featured in the previous CD release. Odd blotches in the orchestral copybook include a glockenspiel playing a third too high and a Claydermanesque swirl of piano instead of harp in Rückert’s ‘Midnight Song’. They are obliterated by major miracles: the mesh of voice and personable Hallé woodwind throughout the Kindertotenlieder, the chastening unsentimental focus of the last ‘Wayfarer’ song, glowing vocal pianissimos that have to be heard to be believed. Only if you prefer, as Mahler did, a male soloist can you possibly want more; but then one imagines that if the composer had ever experienced the Baker artistry, he too would have changed his mind.
Gramophone music magazine : Alan Blyth - 7 / 1999
This is indeed one Great Recording of the Century. The partnership between the two JBs was instinctive, the conductor forever breathing, as it were, with the singer, and both artists at one in going to the heart of the matter. Given Baker's wonderful feeling for the text and the superb playing of the orchestras, it's no wonder that successors have found it very hard to equal, let alone surpass, the quality of these readings.
Also look for a much longer and more critical, but still very favorable, review by Steve Schwartz, on Classical Net in 1998. It's too big to publish here.
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ResponderEliminarThanks very much for this. I only had a low-quality excerpt from years back, at which time I collected some reviews of the whole disk in hopes of finding it some day. I include two here:
ResponderEliminarReviews :
BBC music magazine : David Nice
This peerless collection now returns in even more beautifully hallowed remasterings and with both Baker-Barbirolli recordings of the Rückert setting ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ – its reverie is more inward, its anguished recollections of the hurly-burly world more intense in the first, Hallé version not featured in the previous CD release. Odd blotches in the orchestral copybook include a glockenspiel playing a third too high and a Claydermanesque swirl of piano instead of harp in Rückert’s ‘Midnight Song’. They are obliterated by major miracles: the mesh of voice and personable Hallé woodwind throughout the Kindertotenlieder, the chastening unsentimental focus of the last ‘Wayfarer’ song, glowing vocal pianissimos that have to be heard to be believed. Only if you prefer, as Mahler did, a male soloist can you possibly want more; but then one imagines that if the composer had ever experienced the Baker artistry, he too would have changed his mind.
Gramophone music magazine : Alan Blyth - 7 / 1999
This is indeed one Great Recording of the Century. The partnership between the two JBs was instinctive, the conductor forever breathing, as it were, with the singer, and both artists at one in going to the heart of the matter. Given Baker's wonderful feeling for the text and the superb playing of the orchestras, it's no wonder that successors have found it very hard to equal, let alone surpass, the quality of these readings.
Also look for a much longer and more critical, but still very favorable, review by Steve Schwartz, on Classical Net in 1998. It's too big to publish here.
@Papoulka: Thank you very much for your contribution. Deep from the heart.
ResponderEliminar@Papoulka & @Odeon, are the two postings of the leider by Janet Baker the same remasters? Thank you
ResponderEliminarThank you!!!))
ResponderEliminarOdeon, could you upload this album please?
ResponderEliminarThanks.
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ResponderEliminarDear Odeon, would you please update the links to these Lieder? Thank you.
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ResponderEliminarA re-up please, dear Odeon. This is a true classic. Thanks.
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ResponderEliminarThanks, Odeon!
ResponderEliminarReupload please. Thanks
ResponderEliminarnew links:
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