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Recital
16 March 2005
Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper, Großer Saal
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Also at the following venues:
15th Barbican Hall London
14th Vienna Musikverein
18th Madrid - Auditorio Nacional del Música
20th Salzburg Arena
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Conductor, Franz Welser-Möst
Simon Keenlyside
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
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Mahler: Eight Lieder
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· Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (I breathed a sweet scent)
· Des Antonius van Padua Fischpredigt (Saint Anthony of Padua’s sermon to the fishes)
· Ich ging mit Lust (I walked with joy)
· Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder (Do not spy on my songs)
· Fruhlingsmorgen (Spring morning)
· Liebst du um Schonheit (If you love for beauty)
· Um Mitternacht (At midnight)
· Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world)
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Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
What the critics say
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Excerpt from Frankfurter Rundschau published 18th March 2005
Base camp in impressive height, by Stefan Schickhaus. Translated by Ursula Turecek
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...’For once I wanted to compose how a cow gives milk’ said Richard Strauss once about his nature-sounding Alpensinfonie with cow-bells and thunderstorms. For questions like this actually, the soloist, the British baritone Simon Keenlyside, would have been competent, he is a graduated zoologist after all. Here he sang Mahler songs (partly accompanied in the delicate orchestral version by Luciano Berio) with extreme refinement also in the falsetto register. Similar to his Mahler singing colleague Christian Gerhaher, Keenlyside places emphasis on the instrumentally thought vocal line, therefore not lingering with the single word but thinking in large entities. The specialist periodical NMZ for some time has seen in this baritone from London “one of the few young singers who could play a similarly decisive role in the field of Mahler interpretation as Fischer-Dieskau in the 50es.”