Christopher Maltman: Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall (June 2007)

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SCHUBERT / WOLF / DUPARC / DEBUSSY / WARLOCK
Christopher Maltman: Recorded live at the Wigmore Hall (June 2007)
Christopher Maltman (baritone) Julius Drake (piano)

[ Wigmore Hall Live / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 15 August 2008

"It's Maltman's superb breath control which gives shape and sensuous beauty to Debussy and Dupare. And, thanks to Drake's restraining pace, Warlock's Captain Stratton's Fancy' has real swagger. Flanders and Swann's little masterpiece… about the Honeysuckle and the Bindweed, ends the recital in raptuous applause." BBC Music

"He was wonderful in French songs, too, where his dark voice is often strangely disturbing. In Duparc, he avoids the breathy, overtly sexy approach adopted by many, hinting at deeper ambivalences within the music. Listening to him sing L'Invitation au Voyage, you end up wondering just exactly what the nature of the relationship is between the narrator and a beloved whom he calls "my child, my sister". La Vague et la Cloche, meanwhile, was a tour de force of baleful intensity, in which Maltman was superbly aided by his pianist Julius Drake. That one encore, meanwhile, was Flanders and Swann's Misalliance - funny, bitingly satirical, and faultlessly done" (The Guardian review of concert)

Tracks:

Debussy:
Romance
Les cloches (Paul Bourget)
Mandoline

Duparc:
L'Invitation au voyage
La Vague et la Cloche
Phidylé

Schubert:
Der Wanderer, D493
Wandrers Nachtlied I 'Der du von dem Himmel bist', D224
Rastlose Liebe, D138
Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768

Warlock:
The Fox
The Singer
Captain Stratton's Fancy

Wolf, H:
Der Feuerreiter
Der Gartner
An die Geliebte
Fussreise
Der Rattenfanger

Misalliance
(Encore by Flanders & Swann)