Schubert: Winterreise D911
Bo Skovhus (baritone) & Stefan Vladar (piano)
Skovhus sings with compelling intimacy and raw honesty, even if the tuning sometimes sours a little. Nuanced pianism by Stefan Vladar, and the pair seem to read each other’s minds.
Schubert: Winterreise D911
Bo Skovhus (baritone) & Stefan Vladar (piano)
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Skovhus sings with compelling intimacy and raw honesty, even if the tuning sometimes sours a little. Nuanced pianism by Stefan Vladar, and the pair seem to read each other’s minds.
About
20 years ago, at the beginning of his career, the young baritone Bo Skovhus made his first recording of Schubert’s “Schöne Müllerin”. Now, as a famous opera and Lied interpreter he presents a new production of all 3 Schubert Cycles: “I’m very thankful to do this again. As a young men you do not reflect so much what happen. Now, when I’m older, I understand much more about. Especially for this cycle it’s important to have another point of view.” (Bo Skovhus)
Stefan Vladar, the famous Viennese pianist and his partner on the piano, shows us the virtuosity of the piano part in a new different light.
Contents and tracklist
- Bo Skovhus (baritone), Stefan Vladar (piano)
- Recorded: 4-13 September 2016
- Recording Venue: Liszthalle, Raiding, Austria
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2017
Skovhus sings with compelling intimacy and raw honesty, even if the tuning sometimes sours a little. Nuanced pianism by Stefan Vladar, and the pair seem to read each other’s minds.
January 2018
A Winterreise recording that’s not for connoisseurs with a deep sense of the piece’s recorded history but something that challenges what you thought was best…Here, the song-cycle’s protagonist is briskly fleeing society, perhaps as much a hunted criminal as a rejected lover…Vladar - a big presence here – keeps each song moving…[Skovhus] has startling insights with buried details arising in ways that almost feel confrontational.
