Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne, Daniil Trifonov – Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Matthias Goerne, Daniil Trifonov - Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Matthias Goerne, Daniil Trifonov – Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms) (2022)
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Matthias Goerne not only performs at the highest level as a baritone himself, but his piano accompaniments also rank among the Champions League of classical music. For his first album, which was dedicated to Beethoven songs, he brought Jan Lisiecki on board. This was followed by the album Abendrot with melodies by Wagner and Strauss, among others, together with the young talent Seong-Jin Cho. Now we may experience the baritone in duo with the world-class Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, presenting us with a metaphysical program of Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich and Brahms.
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Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach – Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 960 (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Matthias Goerne continues a Schubert survey that has already established him as one of the most fantastically gifted exponents of the song repertoire; Goerne does not ‘interpret’ Schubert, he lives each lied from the inside and invites the listener to share this poetic and musical intimacy without ever falling into the trap of overstatement. This sixth volume in the series also features an unforgettable performance of Schubert’s last piano sonata by one of the baritone’s favourite partners, Christoph Eschenbach. Offered on a free bonus CD, this ‘second swansong’ reveals hitherto unexplored resonances under his expert fingers.

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Matthias Goerne – Schubert: Wanderers Nachtlied (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Not ‘just another Schubert recording, but a major artistic achievement’ [Christian Girardin, harmonia mundi] Matthias Goerne is totally invested in the recording and editing process. Vol. 9 (the last one in the series) is due out towards the end of 2014. Future recordings will include Brahms with Christophe Eschenbach and Mahler (arr. Berio) Early Songs to be recorded in September 2014 with Josep Pons and the BBCSO.

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Quatuor Ébène, Gautier Capuçon, Matthias Goerne, Laurène Durantel – Schubert: Quintet and Lieder (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Quatuor Ébène, Gautier Capuçon, Matthias Goerne, Laurène Durantel – Schubert: Quintet and Lieder (2016)
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In a characteristically imaginative move, the Quatuor Ebène complements Schubert’s sublime Quintet for two violins, viola and two cellos (Gautier Capuçon joins the ensemble) with a group of his songs – sensitively arranged by the quartet’s cellist, Raphaël Merlin, and sung by German baritone Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s great interpreters of lieder.

In 2014 Erato released Schubert’s glorious ‘Trout’ Quintet, recorded live at Paris’s Salle Pleyel by members of Quatuor Ebène with nonagerian pianist Menahem Pressler. The French quartet – with a new viola-player, 24-year-old Adrien Boisseau and a distinguished guest cellist, Gautier Capuçon – now turns to another Schubert quintet, his final chamber work and one of his sublime masterpieces: the Quintet for two violins, viola and two cellos in C major D956, often known simply as the Schubert Quintet. Its slow movement in particular, in which time seems to stands still, is a favourite with music-lovers.

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Christine Schäfer, Matthias Goerne, Orchestre De Paris, Christoph Eschenbach – Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie op. 18 (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Christine Schäfer, Matthias Goerne, Orchestre De Paris, Christoph Eschenbach – Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyrische Symphonie op. 18 (2006)
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This is Alexander Zemlinsky’s high romantic masterpiece, a symphonic drama-cum-orchestral song cycle that owes something both to his Viennese fellow conductor Gustav Mahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’, and to his pupil Schoenberg’s ‘Gurrelieder’…yet while Schoenberg was looking to atonality and his 12-tone system to design his way out of a 20th century tonal crisis, his teacher went another way, as we hear so clearly in this lushly orchestrated work.

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Matthias Goerne, The Synergy Vocals, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons – Berio: Sinfonia – Mahler: Lieder (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Matthias Goerne, The Synergy Vocals, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons – Berio: Sinfonia – Mahler: Lieder (2016)
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This release is dedicated to the pioneer of Italian modernism Luciano Berio. His 5-movement ‘Sinfonia’, is undoubtedly his most well-known work, written for the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. It has become one of the key works and principle musical manifestations of the 1960s bringing together collage technique and modernism.

A few years later, Berio went on to orchestrate a number of songs on texts from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’, which Mahler had scored for piano and voice, as if they had been written at the time of the later ‘Kindertotenlieder’. A symphonic backcloth tailor-made for the great baritone voice of Matthias Goerne [whose ‘Knaben Wunderhorn’ songs are already available on DVD, with Andris Nelsons, from Lucerne]. His warm, dark voice allows him to capture the sombre and tragic atmosphere of this music like no one else.

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Matthias Goerne, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz – Bach: Cantatas for Bass (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Here’s a repertoire that everybody knows about yet is completely neglected: the Bach cantatas. Granted a few have gained some importance, mostly thanks to the vocal qualities of singers who have seized it for a few decades – Fischer-Dieskau and Elly Ameling to name a few – while some complete works adorn aficionados’ collections. There is however enough content in these cantatas to “make up” about a dozen Passions or Oratorios on par with some of those we already know. Bach himself didn’t refrain from drawing from them to recycle arias, ensembles, choirs and sinfonias. Among some of the most famous, honoured in the 1950s by Fischer-Dieskau, are two cantatas for baritone: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (1726) and Ich habe genug (1727), both written with oboe and string accompaniment. It’s precisely with this roster in mind that the Freiburger Barockorchester serves Matthias Goerne, a disciple of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and… Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, him again! The German baritone, a regular on the world’s most prestigious scenes, doesn’t refrain from lending his immense voice to this almost-chamber music by giving it a character far removed from the lyrical style required by Berg, Wagner or Strauss. In addition, still with the oboe in mind, the recording includes the Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore BWV1055R, a modern reconstruction from a keyboard concerto in A major, which there is every reason to believe was itself recycled by Bach from an older concerto for oboe d’amore. The remarkable Katharina Arfken plays the oboe for the cantatas and the oboe d’amore for the concerto.

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Matthias Goerne, Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Sehnsucht (2008/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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More than almost any other Lieder singer today, [Goerne] combines expressive diction with an unblemished legato. – The Daily Telegraph, Classical CD of the Week

[Goerne’s] voice has a melting allure that draws you in completely to the sentiments of the song, and the disarming beauty of Schubert’s music. The performances glow in various lights, rounding off a truly excellent first volume of an ongoing Schubert series. – The Scotsman

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Matthias Goerne, Daniel Harding & The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – The Wagner Project (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or bass from Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Holländer, Parsifal and other operas, the themes dear to the composer (gods, men and redemption) inspire him to deploy supreme expressive resources and show the incontestable genius of this born orchestrator in a new light.

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Matthias Goerne, Alexander Schmalcz – Schubert: Nacht und Träum (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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The fifth exquisite Schubert Lieder recording for harmonia mundi from German baritone Matthias Goerne, a protégé of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. ‘Matthias Goerne is fast becoming the Fischer-Dieskau auf his generation, the standard-setting singer of the central lieder repertoire.’ (International Record Review). ‘In such repertoire Goerne’s mellow, darkly rounded timbre, expressive diction and care for a true, “bound” line are well nigh ideal.’ (Gramophone). ‘Even the lesser Schubert Lieder become gems from Goerne’s velvet baritone.’ (The Times).

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Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser – Schumann: Einsamkeit – Lieder (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Following the Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition for harmonia mundi, a venture that has revealed his stature as the foremost interpreter of lieder, especially at its darkest, Matthias Goerne has now selected 19 gems, lovingly fashioned by Schumann in the year of his marriage (1840). They are contrasted with those of the Düsseldorf period (1849-52). From the fragrant flowers of the bouquet of ‘Myrtles’ to the nocturnal atmosphere of the ‘Six Poems and Requiem’ the mood spans Schumman’s joy in his marriage to his beloved Clara but also the darkest despair: in which he erects a worthy monument to his soulmate, the poet and arch-melancholic of his time, Nikolaus Lenau. An enchanted, sometimes brooding, nocturnal atmosphere dominates these impressive songs, whose piano accompaniment – hardly coincidentally – recalls the tone of Chopin’s Nocturnes, played here by Markus Hinterhäuser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival and regular collaborator with Matthias.

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Leif Ove Andsnes & Matthias Goerne – Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24 & Kernerlieder, Op. 35 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Justinus Kerner, a poet and a practicing physician fascinated with occultism, somnambulism and magnetism, inspired young Schumann who, at just seventeen, set to music the singular poet’s verses. He would eventually come back to it in 1840 with a strange cycle, “a masterpiece of dereliction” (according to Brigitte François-Sappey) he wrote as an exorcism for his mental illness: through a suite of twelve poems (Zwölf Gedichte Op. 35, better known as “Kerner Lieder”), Schumann projects his own destiny, questioning himself, trying to understand why sadness overwhelms his soul even though he’s in-love and newlywed.

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Matthias Goerne & Christoph Eschenbach – Schubert: Winterreise D. 911 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Matthias Goerne’s 2014 release of Winterreise concludes his series of Franz Schubert’s lieder on Harmonia Mundi. This is the third recording Goerne has made of the song cycle, following his 1997 album with Graham Johnson on Hyperion, and a live recording released in 2004 on Decca, where he was joined by Alfred Brendel in a recital at Wigmore Hall. Here, Goerne and his accompanist, Christoph Eschenbach, deliver a subtle version that is full of intense darkness. The gloom and despair of the wanderer is increasingly conveyed in Goerne’s singing, so by the end of the journey, the feeling of exhaustion in Der Wegweiser (track 20) and Der Leiermann (track 24) brings the point of the cycle across. The recording is reasonably close to the performers and they have credible presence, which enhances the songs’ deeply personal expression. This recording attests to the continuing popularity of Winterreise, and it is one of the best of several versions to be released in 2014.

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Matthias Goerne, Seong-Jin Cho – Im Abendrot: Songs by Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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After his critically-acclaimed & award-winning “Beethoven recording” with pianist Jan Lisiecki baritone Matthias Goerne continues with his next album on Deutsche Grammophon This time featuring DG exclusive artist Seong-Jin Cho. With Beethoven, Matthias Goerne and Jan Lisiecki considered the dawn of the Lied. Here, accompanied by Seong-Jin Cho, the baritone contemplates its twilight – an unending, almost century-long twilight.

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Matthias Goerne – Beethoven Songs (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Over the years, many of the countless attempts to portray Beethoven have veered towards the one-dimensional: the hero, the titan, the free spirit, the rebel and non-conformist, the musical libertarian… While there may be some truth in one or more of these labels, the reality is infinitely more complex. To get to know the true Beethoven, one needs to look beyond the multitude of myths that have proliferated around him – and a good starting point is to focus on some of his vocal miniatures, works that have been unjustly eclipsed by the monumental status of his nine symphonies.

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