Name: In The Shadows
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this is another fine, fascinating album from an unusually interesting and intelligent artist, handsomely recorded. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2024 More…

Release Date: 1st Mar 2024
Catalogue No: 5419787982
Label: Erato
Length: 84 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

1st March 2024
Opus Klassik Awards

2024

Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
Opus Klassik Awards

2024

Winner - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
Gramophone Awards

2024 Shortlist

Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
International Opera Awards

2024

Winner - Recording (Solo Recital)
Presto Recordings of the Year

Winners 2024
International Classical Music Awards

2025

Nominated - Vocal Music

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Méhul: Vainement Pharaon...Champs paternels (from Joseph)

Work length5:36

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Beethoven: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier! (from Fidelio)

Work length9:33

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Rossini: Della cieca fortuna (from Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra)

Work length9:57

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Meyerbeer: Suona funerea (from Il crociato in Egitto)

Work length7:57

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Christophe Rousset

Weber: Nein, Länger Trag Ich Nicht (from Der Freischütz)

Work length6:35

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Auber: Spectacle affreux (from La muette de Portici)

Work length5:01

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Spontini: Der Strom wälzt ruhig seine dunklen Wogen (from Agnes von Hohenstaufen)

Work length5:12

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Bellini: Me protegge, me difende (from Norma)

Work length6:44

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Michael Spyres (tenor), Julien Henric (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques, Le Jeune Choeur de Paris
Christophe Rousset

Marschner, H A: Gonne mir ein wort der Liebe (from Hans Heiling)

Work length5:34

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Wagner: Wo find ich dich, wo wird mir Trost (from Die Feen)

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Wagner: Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab! (from Rienzi)

Work length11:11

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

Wagner: Mein lieber Schwan (from Lohengrin)

Work length5:49

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Michael Spyres (tenor)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset

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Interview, Michael Spyres on In The Shadows

25th September 2024

Ahead of next week's Gramophone Awards and International Opera Awards, the baritenor discusses his shortlisted album (released on Erato in March) exploring early Wagner and the composers who influenced his writing.

Recording of the Week, In The Shadows with Michael Spyres

1st March 2024

The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.

Michael Spyres is a singer who challenges and reshapes perceptions – as his albums BariTenor and Contra-Tenor have shown. Now, preparing for his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Summer 2024, he searches In the Shadows to reveal more about Wagner and the origins of his music dramas. “Wagner evokes a varying spectrum of emotions – awe, ecstasy, even trepidation,” explains Spyres. “This album endeavours to illuminate the composers who languish in the shadows, who formed the foundation of Wagner’s compositions and sculpted the framework of vocal writing for the Wagnerian tenor.” In the Shadows culminates with three arias by Wagner – from Lohengrin and the lesser-known Die Feen and Rienzi. Preceding them are early-19th-century arias by composers of the French, German and Italian schools: Méhul, Beethoven, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Weber, Auber, Spontini, Bellini and Marschner. Spyres’s distinguished companions in his exploration are the players of Les Talens Lyriques and their conductor Christophe Rousset.

Reviews

April 2024

this is another fine, fascinating album from an unusually interesting and intelligent artist, handsomely recorded.

1st March 2024

The real rarities abound with details that evidently seized Wagner’s imagination: a scene from Meyerbeer’s Il crociato features some solemn low brass writing that seems to point the way to Parsifal, whilst an aria from Spontini’s Agnes von Hohenstaufen seems to look back to Rossini and Meyerbeer as well as forward to Rienzi. The prayer from Rienzi itself brings some of the finest singing and playing on the album, with Spyres on radiant form and some magical colours from the brass in particular.

10th March 2024

A fascinating study of works that influenced Wagner...The singing and playing are predictably superb.

16th March 2024

In the Shadows travels through Italian bel canto and French grand opera as well as German repertoire...all ideal for Spyres’s gleaming, high-octane voice. His exciting singing, with punchy, crisp playing from Les Talens Lyriques, hits you between the ears.

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Interview, Michael Spyres on In The Shadows

Recording of the Week, In The Shadows with Michael Spyres

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