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- From: inr@deimos.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: M"ullerin and lieder tenors
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 08:08 PST
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Dec28.150841.14263@osf.org>, coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren) writes...
- >In article <1992Dec28.023633.26557@walter.bellcore.com>,
- >hsong@ardour.bellcore.com (G. Hugh Song) asks about recordings of
- >tenors singing _Die Schoene Muellerin_.
- >
- >I'm not familiar with a large number of such recordings (I have an LP
- >with Wunderlich, which I haven't listened to in some time -- I
- >remember being vaguely disappointed by it). A few years ago I heard a
- >radio broadcast of a recording by a tenor named Martyn Hill, which I
- >thought was really beautiful. You might check it out.
- >
- >O wise ones of the net: what's with Martyn Hill? Is he still around?
- >If so, what's he up to?
-
- Martyn Hill is certainly still around and going strong - at least he
- was last year. He was one of the originals in the Consort of Musicke, and
- his contributions to the Dowland series are marvellous. He also
- participated in the AAM Messiah (at least in a concert performance from
- the Proms, 1980, a prized tape of mine) - that demonstrates his marvellous
- gift for ornamentation.
- More recently hes contributed to the Hyperion / Graham Johnson Schubert
- lieder series - there's a fascinating cycle that I got hooked on, and
- Hyperion never on sale either - and there's also a recent Virgin
- r4ecording of Rubbra settings of Spenser (I think - much too far
- from my cds to check) for tenor + string quartet. I'm fairly certain
- that he also recorded Les Illuminationss recently - his recordings
- crop up fairly often in Gramophone.
- On the subject of Die Schone Mullerin, I feel that's definitely a song-cycle
- better suited for a tenor than a baritone - even a baritone as good as
- Fischer-Dieskau at his best. I have an old recording by a young Ian
- Partridge (acc. Jennifer Partridge - CfP) which conveys the
- youthful vulnerability marvellous. I've also got the Screier and
- Wunderlich versions -and I prefer the Partridges - although
- Wunderlich has a fine feeling of spontaneity (and what a voice).
-
- Neill Reid - inr@eccles.caltech.edu
-