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Label: Somm

Cat No: SOMMCD0670

Barcode: 7488710670288

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 16th June 2023

Artists

Ian Partridge (tenor, piano)
Jennifer Partridge (piano)
Ernest Lush (piano)

Works

Schubert, Franz

Alinde, D904
An den Mond, D193
An mein Herz, D860
Bei dir allein!, D866/2
Dass sie hier gewesen!, D775
Der Einsame, D800
Der blinde Knabe, D833
Die Liebe hat gelogen, D751
Die gefangenen Sanger, D712
Erster Verlust, D226
Im Fruhling, D882
Nacht und Traume, D827
Nachtviolen, D752
Nahe des Geliebten, D162
Schwanengesang, D957

» Das Fischermadchen

» Ihr Bild

Sei mir gegrusst!, D741
Stimme der Liebe, D412
Uber Wildemann, D884
Vor meiner Wiege, D927

Artists

Ian Partridge (tenor, piano)
Jennifer Partridge (piano)
Ernest Lush (piano)

About

SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to pay tribute to the British tenor Ian Partridge on his 85th birthday on 12 June with Stimme der Liebe (The Voice of Love), a collection of iconic songs by Schubert, on which he is joined by his pianist-sister Jennifer Partridge and pianist Ernest Lush.

The great German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau hailed Partridge’s Schubert interpretations as “a pure joy”, an accolade that these 20 performances of Lieder, taken from BBC Radio broadcasts between 1968 and 1972 – and available now for the first time on disc – readily illustrate.

They reveal Partridge’s unique, insightful affinity with the complexity and nuance of Schubert’s response to matters of the heart, a quality Fischer-Dieskau described – in a facsimile letter to the singer included in the booklet – as his “respect and love for the music”.

Among familiar works such as Im Frühling, Das Fischermädchen and An den Mond, are relative rarities such as Vor meiner Wiege, which Partridge describes in his booklet interview with Jon Tolansky exploring his “life-long love affair” with Schubert’s Lieder, as one of the composer’s “most inspired creations”.

With a repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Elizabethan lute songs to Schoenberg and Britten, Ian Partridge is one of the most acclaimed lyric tenors of his generation. He is especially known for his success with songs and Lieder and regarded as one of the great modern Schubert interpreters. His hugely successful partnership with his pianist-sister, Jennifer, saw the duo giving more than 430 recitals and making numerous recordings over their 52-year-long partnership.

The booklet also includes informative notes, texts and translations by Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005).

Restoration of the original recordings has been undertaken by audio expert and long-time SOMM collaborator, Lani Spahr.

Reviews

It comes as a shock to realise how few commercial recordings the Partridges, brother and sister, made together. ... Once upon a time their CfP album of Die schöne Müllerin (11/73) held its own alongside the likes of Fischer-Dieskau and Schreier ‘for its straightforward singing and plangent interpretation’, as the late Alan Blyth remarked. Drawn from a five-year period in the earlier prime of their careers, this compilation of BBC recitals shares those qualities. ... Line is paramount. ... I would hope, if this volume does as well as it deserves to, that the BBC archives could be mined more deeply... Peter Quantrill

Gramophone August 2023