Samuel Hasselhorn, Ammiel Bushakevitz – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Samuel Hasselhorn, Ammiel Bushakevitz – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

As if he were one with Müller’s hero, Schubert explores in La Belle Meunière loneliness, emotions, the call of elsewhere, disappointed or impossible loves, death too… For this first stage of the Schubert series that Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz propose to us 200 years apart, they give us a poetic and poignant reading of this founding masterpiece of German lied.

This 2023 release inaugurates an ongoing series from baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, performing Schubert works two centuries on from their date of composition, and slated to culminate in 2028, the bicentennial of the composer’s death. The project begins with one of the most famous Schubert song cycles of all, Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, depicting the crackup and despair of a young wanderer who falls in love with a beautiful miller’s daughter. Hasselhorn has plenty of recent competition in this cycle; listeners can sample the 2017 recording by Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber for another approach, but this one promises well for the ongoing project. Die schöne Müllerin is a work in which Schubert took vast strides toward the emancipation of the piano in the lied, and Bushakevitz leans into this aspect, with details that illuminate and often foreshadow themes developing in the text. Hasselhorn has a warm baritone with an appealing conversational tone that turns chilly and quiet toward the cycle’s downer conclusion. Another draw is Harmonia Mundi’s sound from the b-sharp studio in Berlin; the engineers put Bushakevitz just a bit forward in the mix, not so much as to sap energy from Hasselhorn’s singing, but enough to highlight his perceptive performance. This release bodes well indeed for the duo’s future work. -© James Manheim

Tracklist:
1-01. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 1, Das Wandern (02:35)
1-02. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 2, Wohin? (02:29)
1-03. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 3, Halt! (01:24)
1-04. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 4, Danksagung an den Bach (02:50)
1-05. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 5, Am Feierabend (02:42)
1-06. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 6, Der Neugierige (04:17)
1-07. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 7, Ungeduld (02:57)
1-08. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 8, Morgengruß (04:14)
1-09. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 9, Des Müllers Blumen (03:57)
1-10. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 10, Tränenregen (04:42)
1-11. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 11, Mein! (02:15)
1-12. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 12, Pause (04:36)
1-13. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 13, Mit dem grünen Lautenbande (01:54)
1-14. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 14, Der Jäger (01:12)
1-15. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 15, Eifersucht und Stolz (01:45)
1-16. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 16, Die liebe Farbe (05:06)
1-17. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 17, Die böse Farbe (02:10)
1-18. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 18, Trockne Blumen (04:36)
1-19. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 19, Der Müller und der Bach (04:18)
1-20. Samuel Hasselhorn – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: No. 20, Des Baches Wiegenlied (08:22)

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