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Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th January 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
We’re presented with a welcome alternation of moods which beautifully showcase these musicians’ enormous expressive versatility.
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th January 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
We’re presented with a welcome alternation of moods which beautifully showcase these musicians’ enormous expressive versatility.
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Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann, reigning stars of opera, are also consummate interpreters of song. In early 2018, with master pianist Helmut Deutsch, they performed Hugo Wolf’s multi-faceted Italienisches Liederbuch in 12 cities around Europe. “One couldn’t ask for more,” wrote the Telegraph after their London concert, which took place two days before this live recording was made in the German city of Essen.
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Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch
The German tenor, soprano and pianist have a ball with Wolf's 46 miniatures on love, loss and fickleness, recorded live in concert in Essen last year.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week11th January 2019
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2019Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Vocal
April 2019
We’re presented with a welcome alternation of moods which beautifully showcase these musicians’ enormous expressive versatility.
February 2019
Of the two singers, the bright-voiced Damrau is the more nuanced and precise with text…Kaufmann, husky and intense, has less in his Lieder toolkit but he is completely committed to the material…he really excels as the writing grows more Wagnerian…The expressive glue is Deutsch, with his unsentimental probing of Wolf’s ruthlessly concise writing and often devastating delivery of those fascinating, heart-stopping cadences.
11th January 2019
Kaufmann spends the bulk of his time playing the straight man to Damrau’s perky super-soubrette, and he does it quite beautifully, making liberal use of his trademark weightless pianissimos and dark, covered sound. Damrau, meanwhile, is on fantastically sassy form...But it's Deutsch who frequently has the last word thanks to Wolf’s exquisite little postludes, and he delivers it with an understated wryness that all but steals the show.
20th January 2019
Opera stars don’t always make the best Lieder singers, but Damrau and Kaufmann are worth hearing in Wolf’s masterly collection...The soprano sounds appropriately shrewish and brittle, while Kaufmann lavishes a wide palette of colour and expressive intensity on the male songs.
18th January 2019
Damrau’s bright and piercing soprano is particularly telling, greatly effective when teasing and playing the coquette, or digging out the smallest nuances in the texts...In all the songs, too, we’re always aware of the third artist at this feast, the pianist Deutsch. Whatever the songs’ kaleidoscopic demands...he is ever judicious, perfect and precise: a pianist you could take anywhere.
