The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 27 - Hyperion: CDJ33027 - download

Goerne's brief is Schubert's settings of the brothers Schlegel, whose volatile character and life are amply and fascinatingly described in Johnson's introduction to the booklet. As ever in this... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDJ33027
Label: Hyperion
Series: Schubert Song Edition
Length: 77 minutes

Schubert: Lob der Tränen D711 (Schlegel)

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Lebensmelodien D395 (A W von Schlegel)

Work length4:18

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Sprache der Liebe D410 (A W von Schlegel)

Work length1:29

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Wiedersehn D855 (A W von Schlegel)

Work length2:44

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Sonett I D628 (Petrarch / A W von Schlegel)

Work length3:05

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Sonett II D629 (Petrarch / A W von Schlegel)

Work length2:53

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Sonett III D630 (Petrarch / J D Gries)

Work length6:36

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Abendröte, D690

Work length4:06

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Berge, D634

Work length2:07

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Vogel D691

Work length1:05

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Fluss, D693

Work length4:52

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Knabe, D692

Work length2:24

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Rose, D745 First version

Work length2:42

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Schmetterling D633

Work length1:32

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Wanderer, D649 (Friedrich von Schlegel)

Work length3:39

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Mädchen D652 (Schlegel)

Work length2:37

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Sterne, D684

Work length5:10

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Gebüsche, D646

Work length3:24

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Blanka, D631

Work length2:13

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Schiffer D694 (F von Schlegel)

Work length4:07

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Fülle der Liebe D854 (F von Schlegel)

Work length6:52

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Im Walde D708

Work length7:11

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Volume 27 of the Schubert Edition is devoted to settings of the famous Schlegel brothers, August and Friedrich, whose lives and work are written about at length in Graham Johnsons notes, with much information never presented before in English. Some of Schuberts greatest and most attractive songs appear on this disc, including the three Petrarch sonnets (two of them translated by August Schlegel, the delightful but almost unknown Wiedersehen, and the sublime Im Walde. 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

Goerne's brief is Schubert's settings of the brothers Schlegel, whose volatile character and life are amply and fascinatingly described in Johnson's introduction to the booklet. As ever in this series, there are songs that we should curse ourselves for neglecting for so long.
Among the few settings of August von Schlegel is the interesting Lebensmelodien, where the Swan and the Eagle engage in a colloquy – the one all tranquil, the other all disturbed – and are observed by doves on whom Schubert lavishes his most beautiful music. In the formal Wiedersehn, as Johnson avers, Schubert imitates the style of a Handelian aria. The second of three Petrarch translations prefigures, arrestingly, the mood of Winterreise.
When we come to brother Friedrich and the quasi-cycle Abendröte we're in an even more exalted world where Der Fluss, another of Schubert's miraculous water songs, Der Knabe, above all Die Rose, where the fading of the rose is a metaphor for lost virginity (this, movingly done by Schäfer), and Der Wanderer show just how willingly Schubert responded to Schlegel's imagery. About Goerne's singing as such, ably assisted by Johnson's playing, there are no reservations, particularly in the visionary Die Sterne, but as the CD progresses his interpretations can seem a shade soporific; one wonders if he has lived long enough with these songs to penetrate to their heart. His easily produced, slightly vibrant and mellifluous baritone and sense of Schubertian style make him a largely rewarding interpreter. The recording is superb.

The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 27

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