RAM Soloists Ensemble/Pinnock
Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen, etc
(Linn Records)
Just wait until you hear this recording. It’s Volume 3 in a series featuring top-flight soloists of the Royal Academy of Music who, with conductor Trevor Pinnock, are picking up the spirit of Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances by bringing larger-scale works down to domestic size for intimate performance. That’s a crude paraphrase; but the team has already made its point with symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner. Here they return to Mahler with a perceptive version of the Travelling Wayfarer Songs, during which spellbinding performance with baritone Gareth Brynmor John, winner of the 2013 Ferrier Award, I don’t think I breathed. And the ravishing performance of Zemlinsky’s six Maeterlink songs with mezzo Katie Bray (especially the last Mahlerian number) is revelatory of the quality of this music. The compelling disc includes performances of Busoni’s Berceuse elegiaque and Wagner’s gorgeous Siegfried Idyll with a proper intimacy. This superb recording, a fabulous production with world-class music-making, will win awards.
Michael Tumelty
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