Wolf, H - Traurige Wege
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The performances are perfectly fluent and well trained but perhaps a little cautious…the pair are at their best in the four Hafis songs by Viktor Ullmann…There the young singer lets his hair... —
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Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs Volume 6
Lenau & Spanisches Liederbuch (Geistliche Lieder)
Birgid Steinberger (soprano), Anna Huntley (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone) & Sholto Kynoch (piano)
The use of a variety of voice-types rules out sameness, but the singers bring varying degrees of fantasy, so that quality is inconsistent. In the Lenau set, Huntley’s mezzo, noble in timbre... —
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