Thomas Quasthoff, Norman Shetler - Carl Loewe: Balladen (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 68:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classic | # 0825646075997 | Recorded: 1989
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 68:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classic | # 0825646075997 | Recorded: 1989
Nearly all of Loewe's most popular ballads are included in this collection, sung by a voice that is admirably suited to them, and interpreted by an intelligence that dramatizes each song grippingly without the need to inflect every emotive word. Quasthoff's baritone has a rich and sonorous extension into the bass range, a broad palette of vocal colour (so he can personify the child, the father and the sinister wraith in Erlkonig or act out the fraught colloquy of Edward without ever ceasing to sing) and it is a voice that can touch lightly or sing quietly without losing tone.