★★★★★
This is the second disc in what promises to be an ongoing collaboration between Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and English tenor Ian Bostridge performing the music of Schubert. Like the first disc, this one couples a piano sonata with a set of songs. On this disc, the sonata is the massive Sonata in D major (D. 850), while the songs are three settings of Ernst Schulze, five settings of Friedrich von Schlegel, and one setting of August Wilhelm Schlegel...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
One inevitably wonders why pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and tenor Ian Bostridge have joined together for this disc of one sonata and four songs by Schubert. Is there a subtle tie between the sonata and the songs? Are the songs' melodies the basis of the one or more movements of the sonata? Are the song's emotional contents somehow connected to those reflected in the sonatas? Or is it just a capricious whim of the two brilliant musicians...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Was so lovely a recording of such sweet-souled music expected from modernist virtuoso Leif Ove Andsnes? Was it expected that the sharp-cornered and hard-edged Andsnes -- the player whose Schumann is tart, whose Brahms is bitter, whose Chopin is cruel -- could have played Grieg's delightful and delectable Lyric Pieces with such beauty of tone, gentleness of touch, suppleness of phrasing, and such deep and abiding affection? Sure...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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