Frank Martin
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke
For Contralto and Orchestra (1942/1943)
Christianne Stotijn, contralto
Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur
Jac van Steen, conductor
Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm
Released: 2007
Recensie Luister (Dutch music magazine)
10: Inkervende Martin
Dit is meesterschap
Augustus 2007
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Review BBC Music Magazine
Revealing Rilke: Christianne Stotijn rises to the challenge
August 2007
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Review Thurgauer Zeitung
Musik als anteilnehmende Lektüre
September 2007
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Recensie Trouw (Dutch newspaper)
Augustus 2007
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Songs by Schubert, Berg and Wolf
Christianne Stotijn
Joseph Breinl, piano
Onyx Records label
Released: January 2006
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Review Gramophone Magazine
May 2006
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Review Philly.com
May 7, 2006
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN'S 'SONGS OF SCHUBERT'
'EASILY THE MOST IMPRESSIVE ART-SONG DISC IN YEARS'
Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is barely known in the States, but on the basis of this recital disc of Schubert, Berg and Wolf art songs, she will be. The voice is robust and gleaming but capable of astonishing detail, not just in articulating the language but in delivering a range of color and volume.
Even the best voices have spots that are weaker than others, but not, apparently, Stotijn's. Her musical intelligence gives an expressive fullness to every phrase - so much so that Berg's seldom-heard Op. 2 lieder acquire an immediacy that easily transcends the slight tentativeness inevitable in this then-experimental music.
Stotijn's interpretive priorities are especially obvious in Schubert's miniature saga "Erlkonig." Many singers become caught up in giving different voices to the characters in the narrative. Stotijn, instead, is out to express the words as fully as possible, with the richest palette of vocal expression. It's one of many great performances in what is easily the most impressive art-song disc in years. - David Patrick Stearns
Review BBC Music Magazine
April 2006
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Review Times Online
March 4 2006
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Recensie Trouw
18 februari 2006
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(Dutch language)
Recensie NRC
Januari 2006
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Recensie Volkskrant
Januari 2006
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(Dutch language)
Recensie Klassieke Zaken
Aanrader
Januari 2006
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Recensie BN De Stem
Januari 2006
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Recensie Het Parool
Januari 2006
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Mahler Urlicht
Christianne Stotijn
Julius Drake, piano
Onyx Records label
Released: September 2006
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Review Opera Today
July 24, 2007
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
MAHLER URLICHT
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Review (Dutch magazine)
Henriette Posthuma de Boer
Met een poëet als Julius Drake aan de vleugel kan het niet anders dan dat
deze gevoelige zangeres tot grote prestaties komt. Het duo koos voor een
selectie uit Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
(waaronder Urlicht en Das irdische Leben) en de Rückertliederen
Um Mitternacht en Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, dat ik zelden
zo langzaam, maar ook zo geconcentreerd heb horen uitvoeren. Christianne Stotijn
heeft overduidelijk een bijzondere affiniteit met Mahlers idioom en met de
romantische ziel van de componist. Intelligent en intens muzikaal benut ze alle
nuances van haar unieke stem, die soms van een brandende schoonheid is, om elk
lied zijn heel eigen sfeer te geven.
Maart 2007
Review NRC (Dutch newspaper)
January 14, 2007
MAHLER
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Bloomberg Discs of the Year
“...Others include ... Christianne Stotijn's spellbinding Mahler recital,
"Urlicht'' (Onyx)...''
December 2006
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Review Luister (Dutch magazine)
December 2006
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
MAHLER URLICHT
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Review Trouw (Dutch newspaper)
November 25, 2006
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
MAHLER URLICHT
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Review Sunday Telegraph
November 19, 2006
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
MAHLER URLICHT
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Review The Times
October 13, 2006
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN
MAHLER LIEDER
ONYX
Shes Dutch, in her late twenties, and with a mezzo voice this expressive,
flexible, and free of faults no wonder her star is rising. After her CD debut
with Schubert, Wolf and Berg she plunges into the Wunderhorn Mahler of natures
wonders, darkness and light, and soldiers trembling at midnight. The lyrical
radiance of her Urlicht is typical; so is the attention to character in the
narrative songs. Julius Drakes piano cradles her skilfully.
GEOFF BROWN
Review Independent on Sunday
October 29, 2006
*****
Christianne Stotijn's second recital disc for Onyx shows just what a
difference a matter of months can make in a still-developing mezzo-soprano
voice. The first song in her all-Mahler programme, Frühlingsmorgen, gives
little indication of the emotional and artistic marathon ahead. Stotijn¹s
voice rich and suggestive, sly and sorrowful as required, with shades of
Janet Baker's gravitas, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's candour, and Anne Sofie
von Otter's playfulness is tailor made for Mahler¹s Ruckert Lieder and Das
Knaben Wunderhorn. Julius Drake¹s accompaniment is perfectly judged, both
artists¹ colouration of these intensely personal songs highly sophisticated.
Urlicht indeed.
ANNA PICARD
Review BBC Music Magazine
November 2006 edition
Performance HHHHH
Sound HHHH
Hot on the heels of the young Dutch mezzo’s debut disc – warmly welcomed by
Hilary Finch in the April issue – comes a Mahler recital of astonishing range
and sophistication. Go straight to ‘Rheinlegendchen’ to catch the lighter
essence of Stotijn’s approach: every word is coloured and inflected with natural
musicianship, but never gets in the way of line or phrasing. Her rock-solid alto
range is equally adaptable to the gruff sentinel of ‘Der Schildwache Nachtlied’,
an unforgettable withdrawal to a private world in the last verse of ‘Ich bin der
Welt’ and the calm assurance of ‘Urlicht’ (programmed here to follow an
intriguingly steady treatment of the song which, reworked as the Scherzo of the
Second Symphony, also precedes its orchestral incarnation).
If there’s a fault, it’s that at the top of the range the vibrato can be tight
under pressure, but characterisation overcomes it in the repeated ‘ades’ of
‘Scheiden und Meiden’. Like her pianist Julius Drake – a subtle impersonator of
the birds, bugles and alphorns that haunt the naïve folk world of Mahler’s
youthful forays – Stotijn makes every song a gem; it helps that the composer is
always himself even in the early settings. The new concert hall of the Yehudi
Menuhin School, making its recorded debut, lends warm support to the subtly
varied recording.
DAVID NICE
Lux Aeterna
Vocal Ensemble The Gents and female choir
Peter Dijkstra, leader
Channel Classics CCS-SA-22405
2005 (2 CD's)
Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano
Mattijs van de Woerd, baritone
Erwin Wiersinga, organ
Quirine Viersen, violoncello
