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Uploaded by on Nov 23, 2008

Boris Christoff
Lieder de Schubert
Turin 1962. LOvro Von MATACIC.
Der Atlas

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  • great, two Christoff's fan met here, a couple of Schubert's require bass voice as Aufenthalt, Der Atlas and a lot more I hear a Wotan in a couple of them hiden in Franz Scubert's body with the lance pointing with wrath, and the Baches wiegenlied needs the absolute silence in the loudest painful cryout those gems listened alive by DFD and Peter Schreiersome female singers tried to give back something Erlkonig by Jerome Hines, sorry BC yes and so on keep the spirit

  • Admittedly, I am a fan of the tyrannical interpreter that ignores the composer when he or she so chooses...but I also exercise that same right in my criticism of this interpretation. Your comment presupposed objectivity when you wrote that you "hope [I] do understand the text"...so I responded with objective facts.

    But why fight? I love Christoff as much as the next guy...I just don't like his choice of tempi here.

  • Atlas stands for itself, the subject of the LIED needs an Atlas' strength to drag the weight of a complex suffering about an untold human relation (remember Schubert's own situation), we can go for a word by word analysis but the dinamics and written notes must be interpreted by a singer and the singer turns to be part of this artistic complex work (creation/recreation in the sense of creating a new work by his own!!! it is his right and obligation) the (Dies) irae or wrath comes out justly

  • Yes; I have performed the song.

    Text considerations are not license to omit all musical or stylistic integrity...he does a good job with the tempo he has chosen, but the score is marked--in my edition--"Etwas geschwind (Poco Allegro)". There is nothing "Allegro" about this at all.

    Also, at this tempo, the 'Anger" of the text is lost. The singer is not LITERALLY the titan Atlas...it is the voice of an ill fated lover...hence the definite article "Der". The next song gives likely context.

  • as it should be, hope you do understand the text

  • This is the best rendition ever!!

  • Man, this is so slow it's painful.

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