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Recital
20th March 2005
Salzburg Arena
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Also at the following venues:
15th Barbican Hall London
14th Vienna Musikverein
16th March: Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper
18th March: Madrid, Auditorio Nacional del Música
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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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Extract from Salzburger Nachrichten, 21 March 2005.
Translated by Ursula Turecek
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“...Before the interval, selected songs by Mahler had to be more delicate, there we heard much whispering and mumbling, whirring and buzzing but also touching simplicity. Enjoyable and competent: Simon Keenlyside’s subtle, bright baritone and his amazingly clear pronounciation of the text. The technique worked: Not to force the sound but to support it.”
Extract from Wiener Zeitung, by Reinhard Kriechbaum, 22 March 2005.
Translated by Ursula Turecek
“Richard Strauss said some day about his “Alpensymphonie" that he wanted to compose „how the cow gives milk“. And even this would be too intimate for the Salzburg Arena, the huge exhibition hall for more than 4.000 people where also concerts take place.”
“...Sure enough a work like „Alpensymphonie“ gets along with such dimensions, with the electronic mending of the reverberation and the likes. Mahler’s orchestral songs and the baritone Simon Keenlyside definitively less so.”
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