It’s one of the most anticipated discs of the year: the third CD of the famous “cycles” (even if The song of the Swan is not really one) Schubertians by the prodigious Liedersänger Andrè Schuen, born on the border of Italy and Austria. The baritone gave us a Beautiful miller truly ideal, a term that can be used here to describe the vocal performance, the beauty of the timbre, the breathability. Added to this control of the singing is a mastery of the material of the statement of the text. We can take as a central point, to gauge this, Lieder IX and X, Irrlicht And Rast, where each microgram of saliva accompanying this or that syllable, to give it more or less hardness or moist creaminess, seems calibrated. All this is picked up by the microphones not clinically, but almost naturally. However, what marveled in The beautiful miller appears (admittedly subjectively) as “too perfect” in The winter trip, who lives on fragility and cracks. The record almost becomes strange.
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