Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier - Volume 1

Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier - Volume 1

4863954 (Deutsche Grammophon, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (28 October 2022)

Playing time: 56'
Tracks: 14
℗ 2022 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
© 2022 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Main country of recording: Switzerland
Reviewer: John Dante Prevedini
Review of Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier - Volume 1 published on 23 December 2022

Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone
Blythe Teh Engstroem, viola (tracks 10-14)
Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe (tracks 10-14)
Leigh Mesh, double bass (tracks 10-14)
Gary Hoffman, cello (tracks 10-14)
Marta Sudraba, cello (tracks 10-14)
Nobuko Imai, viola (tracks 10-14)
Alina Ibragimova, violin (tracks 10-14)
Julian Rachlin, violin (tracks 10-14)
Nikolaj Znaider, violin (tracks 10-14)
Verbier Festival Orchestra (tracks 1-9)
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor (tracks 1-5)
James Levine, conductor (tracks 6-9)

Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Anton Webern:

1 Tränenregen (Die schöne müllerin, D 795)

2 Der Wegweiser (Winterreise, D 911)

Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Johannes Brahms:

3 Memnon, D 541

Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Jacques Offenbach:

4 Ständchen (Schwanengesang, D 957)

Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Max Reger:

5 Erlkönig, D 328

Gustav Mahler:

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
6 Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
7 Ging heut' morgen übers Feld
8 Ich hab' ein glühend Messer
9 Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz

Johann Sebastian Bach:

Cantata 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen', BWV 56
10 Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
11 Mein Wandel auf der Welt
12 Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch
13 Ich stehe fertig und bereit
14 Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder

Recorded live, 2003-2005, at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

From the instant that Thomas Quasthoff began his first Verbier Festival performance in 2003, the incomparable bass-baritone knew that he had arrived at his musical home. Nearly twenty years later, this sublime debut - an assortment of orchestrated Schubert lieder - opens a release that highlights Quasthoff's incredible musicality against backdrops of instrumental accompaniment. Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), followed by J S Bach's Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen round out this highly-anticipated offering from Verbier Festival Gold.