Echo

The baritone Georg Nigl is fascinated by ballads, which unfold in him dream images. Schubert's long and little-known lied Viola, based on a poem by Franz von Schober, or the great ballads based on texts by Goethe opened up a world that has always accompanied me, that of the storyteller ... stories of frightening beauty, with as many colours as possible.... The magnificent pianos on this recording a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf Vienna, 1826 and a Steinway & Sons concert grand piano New York, 1875 beautifully played by Olga Pashchenko, with whom Georg now forms an intimate and inspired duo, allow us to hear unknown sounds and sometimes unheard-of colours