Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-10-07 15:24
There's a very good YouTube performance of the Spohr 6 German Songs by the ensemble Anaphora -- Guinevere Tiffin, soprano, Cory Tiffin, clarinet and Matthew Ganong, piano. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spohr+six+teniralcist&search_type=&aq=f
Spohr was not Beethoven or Schubert. The harmony and emotional temperature are always the same. Still, the 6 German Songs are excellent music, performed far too seldom.
By absolute standards, the are a few tiny problems. The clarinetist is technically superb, but he plays a hair sharp, particularly in the throat register, I'd like to hear more variety in tone color from both him and the soprano, and there's room for even more tone painting to match the words. Finally, the clarinetist is a little overmiced. But it's the equal of any of the LP and CD versions I've heard.
For each song, be sure to click on "more info" at the right, which reveals an English translation of the texts.
Ken Shaw
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