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Eric Schneider, Christine Schafer - Apparition - Henry Purcell, George Crumb (2008)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 3 Aug 2014 09:27:08

Given Christine Schäfer’s wide-ranging repertoire, this mixing of 17th-century English and 20th-century American songs is no surprise. Everything about this recital hangs together without strain – even the gear changes between Purcell and Crumb and the Shakespearean quotes spoken by a boy’s voice, sometimes given a rather sinister quality through electronic treatments. (Beware the forte chord 16 seconds into the first whispered track, especially if you are listening on earphones.) Notwithstanding that most of the Purcell pieces are drawn from theatrical contexts, here and there I found Schäfer’s delivery just a tad too grand operatic. That point of personal taste aside, these are fine accounts. Her exemplary clarity of tone and diction, and her emotional commitment to both composers, make for a powerful recital. Crumb’s Three Early Songs (1947) setting Southey and Sara Teasdale, and Apparition (1979) drawing on Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d are atmospheric and affecting. Schneider’s playing is incisive yet sensitive and responsive, no less so when using amplified piano for Apparition.

Composer: Henry Purcell, William Shakespeare, George Crumb, Christine Schäfer / Eric
Performer: Eric Schneider, Christine Schäfer

Reviews: Christine Schäfer is an artist with a unique sense of style, which comes through unmistakably on Apparition. First is the cover of Schäfer in a white gown standing with a dinosaur skeleton winding around her like a miniature roller coaster would. Then there's the fact that she and pianist Eric Schneider mix songs by Henry Purcell and George Crumb, two composers you might never expect would have anything in common, but incredibly, the idea works amazingly well. A lot of the success is due to her wonderful voice and the consummate musicianship of them both. Schäfer understands the music both technically and emotionally. There is nary a fault to be found in their performance, and because of that, it's hard not to admire the music and the way it's presented, regardless of how you feel about either composer. She always gives the sense of a real person and that person's feelings in the Purcell, but completely within the dimensions of the music aided by Schneider's sensitivity to making the modern piano also fit within it. The two make the differences between Baroque and Contemporary relate and flow without jarring the listener by placing Crumb's Three Early Songs in various spots between the Purcell songs and putting Crumb's more adventurous cycle Apparition at the end. Apparition is aurally centered, dependent on the sounds that can be made by the voice and a prepared piano more than on the Walt Whitman texts. Hearing it gives more meaning to the brief spoken-word tracks that also are sprinkled throughout the Purcell, which are probably what will strike the average listener as the strangest thing about the program. They are lines from a few of Shakespeare's sonnets, recited – usually in a whisper – by a boy and produced with effects reminiscent of what George Martin and the Beatles did on Sgt. Pepper. In many ways, those tracks suggest that the whole program would be perfect for a truly creatively filmed recital. But if you are not the daring musical explorer type, you don't have to listen to the tracks in order and you don't have to listen to everything on the album, as Schäfer says in the notes. Regardless, her singing alone makes it worth giving it consideration.

Tracklisting:

Henry Purcell

[1. So long as men can breathe 0.54]
2 Music for a while 3.41
3 If music be the food of love [1692] 1.31
4 Ah how sweet it is to love 1.35
[5: Do I envy those Jacks 0.28]
6 An Epithalamium (Thrice happy lovers) 2.52
[7. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day 0.43]
8 Sweeter than Roses 4.16

George Crumb
9. Three Early Songs: I Night 2.56

Henry Purcell

[10 They live unwooed 0.17]
11 From rosy bow’rs 7.08
[12 And so of youth 0.48]
13 Not all my torments 3.01

George Crumb
14 Three Early Songs II Let it be forgotten 3.17

Henry Purcell
15 Crown the altar 3.19
[16 No longer mourn for me when I am dead 0.44]

George Crumb
17 Three Early Songs III Wind Elegy 2.14

Henry Purcell
[18 ****** 0.46]
19 Dido’s Lament 4.21

George Crumb
Apparition
20 I The Night in Silence under Many a Star 3.23
21 Vocalise 1: Summer Sounds 1.07
22 II When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 1.25
23 III Dark Mother Always Gliding Near with Soft Feet 2.53
24 Vocalise 2: Invocation 1.03
25 IV Approach Strong Deliveress! 2.14
26 Vocalise 3: Death Carol (“Song of the Nightbird”) 0.41
27 V Come Lovely and Soothing Death 7.39
28. VI The Night in Silence under Many a Star 4.24

Christine Schäfer soprano/Sopran
Eric Schneider piano/Klavier

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