In the coming weeks, Laetitia Gerards, Raoul Steffani & Daan Boertien will perform this duo recital program on tour in the Netherlands at Tindalvilla Bussum, Theater de Veste Delft, Kasteel Heeswijk, Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, Muziekcentrum Enschede, Concertgebouw De Vereeniging Nijmegen and Muziekgebouw Eindhoven.
Please check the calendar for all the dates.
Foto: Tessa Posthuma de Boer
Raoul Steffani: The album you have here is the culmination of a long-cherished desire – a programme devoted to both Robert and Clara Schumann and the musical dialogue that blossomed between them during the early years of their married life, through their poems and song compositions. I am absolutely delighted and grateful for the opportunity to record this programme along with a selection of Robert Schumann’s most beautiful duets, in a truly luxurious pairing with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and my regular piano accompanist Gerold Huber.
Release date 5 November 2021
Challenge Classics, CC 72865
Op 20 december 2020 zijn Raoul Steffani en Lucie Horsch te gast bij Podium Witteman (NPO2 18:00 uur) en geven zij een voorproefje van hun aankomende recitaltournee met werken van Beethoven, Grieg en Backer-Grøndahl.
Kijk de uitzending hier terug.
The recital at Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden on December 16 2020 will be broadcasted live by Dutch NPO Radio 4. The program contains songs by Beethoven, Grieg and Backer-Grøndahl.
“Steffani singt frisch und textdeutlich, interpretiert sensibel, aus einer klugen Mauerschau-Distanz heraus.”
Opernwelt
“…this is all first-rate, refined singing with lucid diction, elegant technique, and a palpable affinity for what he is singing.” “This is an exceptionally fine debut recording for an already well-developed singer.”
American Record Guide
“Steffani is a remarkable singer with an excellent diction and a natural sound, able to communicate an emotion astonishingly convincible.”
De Volkskrant
Baritone Raoul Steffani’s CD debut is a collection of early songs by major Lieder composers Schumann, Grieg, Sibelius and Berg, with accompaniment by Gerold Huber.
Many songs on this album have one thing in common: they are mainly early compositions, in some cases even the first songs these composers wrote. They all have a certain spontaneity and freshness which shows that the young men who composed them were still at the beginning of their careers, full of dreams and hopes for the future. Thus, not surprisingly, many of the songs are also about dreams, totally in the spirit of the true romantic soul.
TRACKS
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis op. 24 (Heine)
Edvard Grieg: Sechs Lieder op. 48
Jean Sibelius: Selection
Alban Berg: Vier Gesänge op. 2
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