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From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Jan 2007
Catalogue No: HMC901926
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 62 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2007

Finalist - Solo
Gramophone Magazine

May 2007

Editor's Choice

Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 95: II. Bei dir sind meine Gedanken

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105 No. 1

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Lieder, Op. 97: I. Nachtigall

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Excerpt, Brahms: Gesänge (5), Op. 72

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

IV. Verzagen

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I. Alte Liebe

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Brahms: 4 Lieder, Op. 46: IV. An die Nachtigall

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 95: III. Das Mädchen spricht

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 8 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59: VIII. Dein blaues Auge

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Gesänge, Op. 71: III. Geheimnis

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Ständchen, Op. 106 No. 1

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 4 Gesänge, Op. 43: I. Von ewiger Liebe

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht, Op. 96 No. 1

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 105: IV. Auf dem Kirchhofe

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 4 Gesänge, Op. 43: II. Die Mainacht

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Gesänge, Op. 7: III. Anklänge

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Gesänge, Op. 6: I. Spanisches Lied

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Mädchenlied (No. 6 from Sieben Lieder, Op. 95)

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 49: I. Am Sonntag Morgen

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Gesänge, Op. 3: I. Liebestreu

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Romanzen und Gesänge, Op. 84: IV. Vergebliches Ständchen

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 95: I. Das Mädchen

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Lieder, Op. 86: I. Therese

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Mädchenlied, Op. 107 No. 5

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 95: IV. Der Jäger

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Gedichte, Op. 19: IV. Der Schmied

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 7 Lieder, Op. 48: I. Der Gang zum Liebchen

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op. 47: III. Sonntag

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: 6 Lieder, Op. 85: III. Mädchenlied

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

Brahms: Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4 (Lullaby)

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Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles

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"Brahms was capable - as were all his great predecessors - of writing a melody that was his own property, right down to the smallest inflection, and yet sounded like a folksong. Or, to put it another way, a melody that was a real, genuine folksong - and yet was by Brahms." Wilhelm Furtwängler, 1931

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March 2007

From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on Brahms's manuscripts. The real skill of Fink and Vignoles is to capture that fusion of physical and emotional movement within a song - and to recreate it with real spontaneity.

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'Bei dir sind meine Gedanken', one of Brahms's happiest songs, makes an inviting aperitif. Buoyed by the evanescent shimmer of Roger Vignoles's accompaniment, Bernarda Fink is all confiding eagerness, phrasing deftly and gracefully and showing a natural feeling for Brahmsian rubato. One would expect Fink's warm, luminous mezzo, flecked by darker, deeper tints, to be near ideal for, say, the nostalgia of 'Alte Liebe' or the many songs of elegiac loss and heartbreak, all touchingly done here. But having thought of her as an essentially 'serious' singer, dignified, eloquent, the vivacity and 'face' she brings to 'Bei dir sind meine Gedanken' and other lighter songs is sheer delight. 'Ständchen', here more sunlit than moonlit, is charmingly characterised, with an affectionate caress on the dreaming girl's 'Vergiss nicht mein'. Fink is playfully coquettish without archness in the delicious 'Spanisches Lied', and sings 'Vergebliches Ständchen' with an outgoing boldness and witty touches of timing – and the tender lingering on the penultimate 'Mein Knab' suggests that the boy's luck may soon be about to change.
Other singers have brought a more intense yearning to 'Die Mainacht' and found greater mystery amid the slumberous balm of 'Feldeinsamkeit'.
But Fink's flowing performances, sensitively shaped and inflected, are never less than satisfying. It is good to be reminded, too, that, for all its melancholy, 'Die Mainacht' is also a song of spring, suffused by warm major-key harmonies, with a hint of excited anticipation at the line 'Wann, o lächelndes Bild'. On the face of it, Fink's lyric mezzo would seem to be on the light side for 'Von ewiger Liebe'. But with Vignoles imaginatively 'orchestrating' the keyboard part, she gives a finely graded, deeply moving performance, vividly contrasting the contained passion of the boy's words with the girl's gentle candour. The glowing climactic avowal of eternal love is truly overwhelming, setting the seal on a Brahms recital of rare distinction.

For all the tragic, premature loss last year of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Argentinian Bernarda Fink is just one of a golden generation of mezzos vying for the mantle of Janet Baker. One of the most versatile, as at ease in Baroque repertoire as in music from Handel and Mozart to Schumann, Fink's rich, warm voice boasts the perfect blend of colour and clarity for this selection of 31 songs from the almost 200 Brahms wrote. Her musical intelligence combines with the sensitivity of Roger Vignoles to capture the folk-song spirit behind their urbane polish.

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