Matthias Goerne reviews
Im Abendrot (Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho)
Matthias Goerne (baritone), Seong-Jin Cho (piano) (DG)
Brahms: Sonatas, Op. 120, etc
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), et al (Harmonia Mundi)
Berg: Wozzeck
Matthias Goerne, Asmik Grigorian, Frances Pappas, John Daszak et al; Vienna State Opera Choir; Salzburg Festival & Theatre Children’s Choir; Vienna Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski; dir. William Kentridge (Harmonia Mundi, DVD)
The Wagner Project
Matthias Goerne (baritone); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (Harmonia Mundi)
Dreaming up The Magic Flute
‘Steier offers brilliant and convincing solutions to the perennial problems of Die Zauberflote’
Bach: St Matthew Passion
It is just over 30 years since Nikolaus Harnoncourt made his first recording of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. I can remember listening with astonishment and joy to the lively dance-like character of the opening chorus, a far cry from any tempo I had grown up with. Now Harnoncourt takes it more briskly, knocking almost three-quarters of a minute off the earlier recording – and it evinced no astonishment at all, such has been the evolution in Baroque music performance over the past quarter-century and more.