Special offer. James Gilchrist sings Schubert & Beethoven
James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook take great care to sense the lightness of touch and the emotional fragility of these songs of vernal yearning...The performers' art really does conceal art:...
Special offer. James Gilchrist sings Schubert & Beethoven
James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
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James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook take great care to sense the lightness of touch and the emotional fragility of these songs of vernal yearning...The performers' art really does conceal art:...
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Renowned British tenor James Gilchrist presents his second recording for Orchid Classics, “Schwanengesang” (Swan Song), Schubert’s final song cycle, coupled with Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” (To the Distant Beloved), widely considered to be the very first song cycle ever written.
Gilchrist is one of Britain’s most popular and sought after singers. This is the first time he has recorded Schwanengesang and it makes a wonderful and much awaited addition to his extensive discography. Gramophone advertising will support this release. Gilchrist has also recorded “Die Winterreise” for release in 2011.
The CD booklet contains full German texts with English translations, a personal note from James Gilchrist, and an essay by Richard Stokes giving fascinating insight into both Schwanengesang and An die ferne Geliebte.
“he is now unsurpassed amongst lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence” The Independent
Full texts and translations included.
Note in English and German
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
May 2011
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook take great care to sense the lightness of touch and the emotional fragility of these songs of vernal yearning...The performers' art really does conceal art: Gilchrist's tenor skilfully voicing a hushed wonder, and Tilbrook's fingers, rid of sentimentalising cliche, moving with the fleet freedom of air and birdsong.
December 2010
Gilchrist's approach is intelligent, nuanced, accurate and well-enunciated...The best moments, such as the final song of the Beethoven, involve a beautiful, hushed stillness
December 2010
Tilbrook plays with a touch that seems infallibly to discover the right balances for accompanying figures and melodic strands...Gilchrist is wonderfully skilful in leading his voice through awkward places...He encompasses all moods in Beethoven's amazingly comprehensive mini-cycle, and in Schwanengesang rises heroically to the supreme challenges of the Heine songs.
26th September 2010
Gilchrist has that smoothness characteristic of British tenors, but is surprisingly versatile, and his sensitivity to the subtlest nuance is unfailing elegant — as it is in Beethoven’s miniature cycle An die ferne Geliebte.
