シューマン&ブラームス歌曲集

数々のオーケストラとの共演盤を経て、ガランチャが初めてリートに焦点を当てたアルバムをリリース!

ガランチャ初のソロ・リサイタル・アルバムは、シューマンとブラームスの厳選された作品による歌曲集。
このアルバムの中心となるのは、愛への献身をテーマにしたロベルト・シューマンの「女の愛と生涯」です。
シューマンの「女の愛と生涯」に加えて、このアルバムでは、様々な感情や心の機微を表現したブラームスの作品も厳選してカップリングされています。
ピアニストのマルコム・マルティノーを伴奏者に迎え、長年の経験と感性が光る琴線に触れる歌唱を披露しています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanča has been known primarily as an operatic singer. This 2020 release on Deutsche Grammophon marks her debut on recordings in song repertory, although she and accompanist Malcolm Martineau performed these songs often in the months leading up to the recording, and theres nothing tentative about the performances. Its not saying too much to observe that Garanča here, more than in operatic recordings, brings the great Christa Ludwig to mind, although Ludwig sang lieder at all stages of her career. Theres the gradual way in which Ludwigs voice matured over time, the sense of discovering things in it that one never knew were there. The overall richness of the voice, the depth in the lower register, the effortless power at the top: all these aspects will sound familiar to those who remember the German soprano, but none of it means that Garanča uses vocal beauty to skate across the meanings of the texts. She has a dramatic sopranos insight into Schumanns Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42, which brings out the arc of the cycle rather than letting it disintegrate into a set of individual songs. The individual Brahms lieder, mostly familiar numbers, have a real freshness here. Garančas voice soars through it all, and it remains a wonder. May one hear more song repertory from this artist!