Hagen/ Lyric Fest - After Words / Songs of Experience / PhantomsHagen Lyric Fest After Words Songs of Experience Phantoms

The charmingly understated

There is a frankness

which Strauss had completed in Weimar

the music seems made to soothe us in our moments of anxiety even as it explores that anxiety

and conductors

composition and music education at the same time and then conducting and philosophy

Using period instruments for which the music was originally written

"The first three are innocent in a way

STABAT MATER is already the fourth album to emerge from the close artistic collaboration between the composer and the Bavarian Radio Chorus

a superb contemporary alto

pressed on 140g black vinyl

the result might sound mystifying