Born in Lucerne (Switzerland), the young tenor Mauro Peter studied in Munich, Germany. He was winner of the first prize and the audience award at the 2012 International Robert Schumann Competition in Zwickau. He had a sensational debut in 2012 with Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch, at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. From that moment on he has been a regular guest at international concert halls and opera houses. Helmut Deutsch is one of the most sought-after pianists for chamber music and vocal accompaniment. He studied piano, composition, and musicology at the Vienna Music Academy, where he was awarded the Vienna Composition Prize. Here they join together to record Dichterliebe and selected other songs by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).

Reviews

The Swiss tenor’s beautifully clear diction is one of the pleasures of this recording. Helmut Deutsch’s sensitive piano playing is the ideal foil for the subtle colourings of Peter's voice. Rebecca Franks

BBC Music Magazine May 2017

The Swiss tenor Mauro Peter has the kind of Dichterliebe voice I hear in my mind’s ear: fresh, youthful, evenly produced, with mellifluousness balanced by a touch of metal. He is a sensitive interpreter, too, of Schumann’s cycle of first rapture, disenchantment and bittersweet resignation. In symbiotic accord with Helmut Deutsch, Peter phrases with unforced eloquence, pointing salient words within a liquid legato. His diction is a model, both expressive and crystal clear. With no hint of mawkishness, he excels in wondering or regretful tenderness and Schumannesque Innigkeit. Richard Wigmore

Gramophone February 2017