The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 26

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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 26

An 1826 Schubertiad

Christine Schäfer (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Richard Jackson (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano)

The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton

It's hard to know where to begin in praise of this disc. It has several centres of excellence, the first being Schäfer's beseeching, urgent account of the Mignon settings from Goethe's WilhelmMeister... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDJ33026
Label: Hyperion
Series: Schubert Song Edition
Length: 75 minutes

Schubert: Der Einsame, D800

Work length4:42

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Des Sängers Habe D832 (Schiechta)

Work length3:04

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Szenen (2) aus dem Schauspiel Lacrimas, Op. 124, D. 857

Work length8:23

$2.20

$3.00

Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), Richard Jackson (baritone)

I. Lied der Delphine 'Delphine'

Track length4:56

$1.10

$1.50

II. Lied des Florio 'Florio'

Track length3:27

$1.10

$1.50

Schubert: Mondenschein, D875

Work length5:16

$1.10

$1.50

Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: Gesange Aus 'wilhelm Meister' D877 (Goethe)

Work length13:09

$4.40

$6.00

Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)

I. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt 'Mignon und der Harfner'

Track length3:56

$1.10

$1.50

II. Heiss mich nicht reden 'Lied der Mignon'

Track length3:01

$1.10

$1.50

III. So lasst mich scheinen 'Lied der Mignon'

Track length3:13

$1.10

$1.50

IV. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt 'Lied der Mignon'

Track length2:59

$1.10

$1.50

Schubert: Totengräberweise D869 (Schlechta)

Work length5:08

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Echo D990C, formerly D868 (Castelli)

Work length6:10

$1.10

$1.50

Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: An Sylvia, D891

Work length3:01

$1.10

$1.50

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889

Work length1:38

$1.10

$1.50

Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Trinklied D888 (Shakespeare / Mayerhofer / Bauernfeld)

Work length1:28

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Wiegenlied D867 (Seidl)

Work length5:50

$1.10

$1.50

Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Widerspruch D865 (Seidl)

Work length3:44

$1.10

$1.50

Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 (Seidl)

Work length2:13

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Grab und Mond, D893

Work length3:17

$1.10

$1.50

The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: Nachthelle, D892 (Seidl)

Work length5:56

$1.10

$1.50

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: Abschied von der Erde, D829

Work length2:50

$1.10

$1.50

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Volume 26 of our Schubert Edition presents a sequence of music which might have been heard at an 1826 Schubertiad and includes songs, ensemble pieces and Schuberts only melodrama. The four settings D877 from Goethes Wilhelm Meister are given complete; the first is a duet sung by Christine Schfer and John Mark Ainsley, the other three Mignon songs by Christine Schfer alone. John Mark Ainsley sings An Silvia; Christine Schfer Hark, hark, the lark. Other highlights include Nachthelle sung by John Mark Ainsley with the Chorale, and Christine Schfers radiant singing of Schuberts loveliest lullaby, Wiegenlied. The moving Abschied von der Erde (Farewell to the World), spoken by Richard Jackson, closes the programme. All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Songs of Franz Schubert: This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed (The Guardian).

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2010

It's hard to know where to begin in praise of this disc. It has several centres of excellence, the first being Schäfer's beseeching, urgent account of the Mignon settings from Goethe's WilhelmMeister that make plain her pre-eminence today among sopranos in Lieder. Next comes Ainsley's winningly fresh account of An Silvia. You may be surprised at how wholly new-minted Ainsley's ardent tones and Johnson's elating piano manage to make of such a hackneyed song. Schäfer and Johnson do the same service for Horch,horch! die Lerch'. Then comes the extraordinary discovery of this volume. As a rule, Johnson has excluded unaccompanied vocal pieces from his project; happily, he has made an exception in the case of the astonishingly original Seidl setting Grab und Mond, which touches on eternal matters, or rather the permanence of death, a message starkly expressed in typically daring harmony. The London Schubert Chorale gives it a spellbinding interpretation and also contributes positively to a performance of another Seidl setting, the better-known Nachthelle, where the high-lying tenor lead provides no problems for Ainsley. There have to be reservations over the work of Richard Jackson; his tone is inadequate to the demands of Der Einsame, the unjustly neglected Totengräberweise and Der Wanderer anden Mond, which call for a richer sound-palette.
Throughout, Johnson's playing is a source of pleasure and enlightenment. The recording is well-nigh faultless.

The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 26

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