DIE SCHONE MULLERIN

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Review Editor's Choice Gilchrist and Tilbrook deliver a masterful Die schöne Müllerin James Gilchrist's Wanderer has been around a bit. Not enough to make him weary or wary, far from it - a first-kindled enthusiasm only burns itself out a little in the forth song, "Danksagung and den Bach" - but in place of the youthful impetuosity of Werner Güra is the anxiety of a man to seize what he can while he can. His jealousy - "Eifersucht und Stolz" = gains thereby a specially manic edge, and leaves him almost shouting at the nd of "Die Böse Farbe" before he takes his leave of love and life in both sorrow and anger over the ever-more-painful course of the last tryptich. In that brief account, and the timings, often very quick or slow, suggest exaggeration or melodrama, then they mislead, for I was never aware of a word being presented for my particular attention (never mind Bostridge and Johnson, think of the beloved's "laaangem Halse" craning after the hunter and away from Güra's Wanderer), and in some songs Gilchrist can barely get the words out in time, but line andd sense never falter. --Gramophone Magazine,Oct'09