Album: Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin, (Orchid Classics)
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Your support makes all the difference.James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook’s reading of Schubert’s earlier song cycle is more conventional than Padmore and Lewis’s Winterreise.
There’s a touching simplicity to Gilchrist’s delivery, though his tenor flutters under pressure and Tilbrook’s delicate, subtle accompaniment is too low in the mix. Most problematic is the lack of suspense: the jealous outburst of “Der Jäger” comes out of the blue, and though “Eifersucht und Stolz” and the “liebe/böse Farbe” songs are riveting, the narrator’s neurosis is revealed too late.
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