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Track(s) taken from CDA67123

Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert, Op 7 No 2

composer
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
1877
author of text
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)
Recording details: January 1999
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: March 2000
Total duration: 1 minutes 52 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Sung with exceptional sensitivity and intelligence … a pleasure to listen to’ (Gramophone)

‘No praise can be too high for Stephen Varcoe … his warm, natural baritone, finely judged legato and sensitivity to words are a joy throughout’ (International Record Review)

‘A beautiful release’ (American Record Guide)

‘Warmly recommended’ (Classic CD)
In Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert, the moon’s ghostly image, shaken by the wild surge of the sea’s waves, is mirrored in the lover’s own sense of torment as he remembers his beloved. Stanford’s sense of control – the tangential opening on the dominant, the avoidance of cadence, the interplay between voice and piano, the perfect reflection of the poem’s meaning in the modified ternary design, and the closing rhetorical gesture of the final bars – is masterly.

from notes by Jeremy Dibble © 2000

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