Quarterly Critic’s Choice

The best and most interesting new releases of the previous three months are awarded a place on the Quarterly Critic’s Choice. Evaluation criteria are artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation, and sound quality. From 2014 onward, the Long Lists are stored directly with each Quarterly Critic’s Choice.

Quarterly Critic’s Choice

Crossover Productions

As An Unperfect Actor

Nine Shakespeare Sonnets. Birgit Minichmayr, Quadro Nuevo, Bernd Lhotzky. CD/LP, ACT 9931-2 (Edel)

Time so far and yet so close: Birgit Minichmayr, known from film and celebrated on the theater stage, follows the trail of William Shakespeare’s enigmatic sonnets. Bernd Lhotzky wrote the compositions for her, which she stages musically together with the Ensemble Quadro Nuevo. Her voice, sometimes inspired by memories of Tom Waits, sometimes almost reverential, leads us through the labyrinth of passions and lets us experience the melancholy of the Elizabethan age as entirely present. For the jury: Bert Noglik

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