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Sunday 8 August 1999
Tuesday 10 August 1999
Großes Festspielhaus as part of the Salzburg Festival
Michael Schade (Tenor)
Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)
Conductor : Kent Nagano
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme
Claude Debussy :
From the Trois Nocturnes
1. Nuages
2. Fêtes
Gustav Mahler :
Das Lied von der Erde
(from Die chinesische Flöte to Hans Bethge)
What the critics say
Kronen-Zeitung 9th August 1999 (Karlheinz Roschitz)
Enchanted by beauty
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…Nagano conducted the version for two male voices with the tenor Michael Schade and the young baritone Simon Keenlyside, two soloists who perform Bethge’s texts with accuracy, clearly pronounced words and subtle empathy. Michael Schade in the drinking songs with a little forced briskness and vehemence; Keenlyside giving impressive coherence to the pictures of farewell with dark, gentle timbre.
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Der Standard, 9th August 1999 (Reinhard Kager)
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A farewell without inappropriate melancholy
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… Nagano found an ideal interpreter for his intentions in Simon Keenlyside: The British baritone sings a farewell without inappropriate melancholy in serenely calm lines. But in the movement Von der Schönheit we’d have wished some more of the expressivity that the tenor
Michael Schade exhibited with physical emphasis too......