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Thomas Quasthoff in Verbier

Live at the Verbier Festival 2003 & 2005

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 sublime 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.

Record date : 26 July 2003
Programme

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Orchestrated Songs

GUSTAV MAHLER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

J.S. Bach
Cantata BWV 56

Conductors: James Levine and Christoph von Dohnányi

Verbier Festival Gold—a joint venture between the Verbier Festival and Deutsche Grammophon—boasts a vast archive overflowing with precious gems captured at the Festival. The record label makes the Verbier Festival experience more accessible to audiences around the world and showcases eminent classical artists, many of them with a close affiliation to Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellow Label, in unusual formations and repertoire.

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