tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post1710983917358237832..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Florian Boesch tonight Wigmore Hall Krenek Doundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-1430007185947825642015-02-01T13:42:44.963+00:002015-02-01T13:42:44.963+00:00Hello ! Generally it makes not a lot of difference...Hello ! Generally it makes not a lot of difference what accents are used, but in this cycle with its explicit Austrian particularism, it does help to remind us that not all German speakers are the3 same. Because most of us have had our ears attuned to North German accents, sometimes people3 can't appreciate Austrian voices<br />Doundou Tchilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-46395374174629687612015-01-31T14:37:05.450+00:002015-01-31T14:37:05.450+00:00Your distinction between Austrian and German, or r...<b> Your distinction between Austrian and German, or rather North German, is useful - so useful that I wonder whether it should be confined to Krenek. The core lieder repertoire has of course become fully international, with a wide variety of singers bringing their own insights. Nevertheless the fact that Schubert and Wolf were both Austrian could make it worth also exploring from an Austrian angle, rather than assuming that the German language overrides national boundaries. <br />I take your point about Amazon, but remain nostalgic for the specialist CD shop where I used to pick up all kinds of unexpected recordings (and order others)! I seem to remember that it brought Holzmair and Garben’s CD of songs by exiled composer Eric Zeisl to my attention (so Viennese that in one song a husband and wife argue about the husband’s habit of spending his evenings in the coffee-shop...), also a pair of fine quartets by the older Karl Weigl, an acolyte of Mahler who had to flee to the US when at the height of a highly successful career. He struggled, as did his music. </b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01545669011950022944noreply@blogger.com