Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder

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An enthusiastic podium presence, Payare gets results that are by no means ‘flash’. He takes nearly 47 minutes to negotiate a score which Carlos Kleiber and the composer himself get through in... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

Release Date: 15th Mar 2024
Catalogue No: PTC5187201
Label: Pentatone
Length: 64 minutes

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Strauss, R: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40

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Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare

I. Der Held

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II. Des Helden Widersacher

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III. Des Helden Gefährtin

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IV. Des Helden Glück

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V. Des Helden Walstatt

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VI. Gewissheit des Sieges

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VII. Des Helden Weltflucht

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VIII. Des Helden Vollendung

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Mahler: Rückert-Lieder

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Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare, Sonya Yoncheva

Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

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Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!

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Um Mitternacht

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Liebst du um Schönheit

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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

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The Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and its Music Director Rafael Payare extend their Pentatone discography with a recording of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and Gustav Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder, sung by star soprano Sonya Yoncheva. The pairing of works may seem odd at first, with Strauss at his most exuberant and Mahler at his most introspective. They share, however, a deeply personal and autobiographical approach by two giants of fin-de-siecle music coming to terms with the world they lived in and their place in it. After their acclaimed recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Payare and the orchestra further explore this late-Romantic repertoire that fits them like a glove. Unique about this project is the participation of Sonya Yoncheva, an opera star presenting herself in German orchestral song for the first time on record.

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April 2024

An enthusiastic podium presence, Payare gets results that are by no means ‘flash’. He takes nearly 47 minutes to negotiate a score which Carlos Kleiber and the composer himself get through in under 40. The argument flows nicely if not always with galvanic force.

Richard Strauss’s critics – baiting 1898 tone poem Ein Heldenleben, so exquisite one minute, so overwrought the next, receives a middling performance by the Montreal Orchestra under Payare. There is an epic sweep to their playing in Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung and the orchestra leader Andrew Wan is superb in the passages for solo violin. But their account lacks a certain effervesance, although the recording balance is spot on. The Bulgarian operatic soprano Yoncheva’s reading of Mahler’s Ruckert-Lieder is a similarly mixed bag – haunting in Um Mitternacht and Ich bin der Welt abhanden Gekommen, perhaps a little too light in tone elsewhere. Much to enjoy though.

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