From the Blurb @ JK's official website:
After over 20 years
of working together and countless performances of Winterreise, Jonas Kaufmann
and his piano-partner Helmut Deutsch finally commit the Olympus of the Lied
repertoire to disc.
Jonas Kaufmann says
about the work: “Against the background of all the horror stories that bombard
us today, we are undoubtedly rather more hardened than Schubert’s
contemporaries and yet even today’s listeners can still find this cycle
affecting. Even as interpreters we always find ourselves sucked into the
emotional undertow of these songs, although we know perfectly well what to
expect. I think that Winterreise has the same sort of cathartic effect as a
Greek drama: the emotional experience purges the soul. The work has an almost
meditative effect on me, because Schubert expressed these emotional depths with
a clarity and a simplicity that I ultimately find consoling and that allows me
to regain my own inner balance.”
Meanwhile, I also learned—courtesy
of a lovely blog called Salazar's Opera Family Circle—about several upcoming DVD
releases featuring JK (hooray!):
- Ariadne auf Naxos from the Wiener Staatsoper
- Don Carlo, also from the Wiener Staatsoper
- Parsifal aus Der Met
There goes my February and March lunch money!
Perhaps your lunches will be even skimpier, as a Jonas Kaufmann "Faust" is to come out in early March.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonderful blog you have! :-)
Oh my! Is that the Met Faust or a newer one? Thanks for the compliment, and thanks for reading!
DeleteThe Met "Faust", yes, with also Pape and Poplavskaya. It's available for pre-order at Presto Classical, where I saw it. Slated for release on March 3, in Europe; in the U.S., Amazon states March 18. :-)
DeleteGreat! I don't know why I thought that already was available. Ah well, who needs lunch, anyway? :-)
DeleteI have my eye on that Don Carlo already.
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