Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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The baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber left at the Rheingau Music Festival at Schloss Johannesberg permanent mark

Gerhaher and Huber maintain one of the deepest musical friendships between men of the present. Since they have 21 years of vo Schumann's "Dichterliebe" worked together, they are fused into a unity. "It has something to do with loyalty - as in a marriage," has Gerhaher once said. And while divorced a year up to 200,000 marriages in Gerhaher and Huber have to say terribly much. Now, they rarely have to Franz Schubert in the context of listed "Swan Songs" lasting impression. Gerhaher covers the entire emotional spectrum and works in every song as authentically as though He prepared only on those lines. About the technical abilities of the musicians do not need a word to be lost anymore. What they are, is the sincerity and enthusiasm for the song composition as high art. With great sincerity, they feel the essence of music and text and share their innermost thoughts for this one. Personal one can hardly give these songs. If Gerhaher breaks the first lines in "The City" more talking than singing, or the heart Selend in "Atlas" with power out of it, when Huber beautiful lyrical accompaniment in "The Fisher Maiden" light and nicely designed, or from the infinite sadness "Your picture" transports, get Schubert year of his death brought very close.

Published in the Frankfurter Neue Presse
Photo source: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html

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