The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 34

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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 34

Schubert, 1817-1821

In his guise as a wizard of an impresario, Graham Johnson has gathered together four baritones and one bass-baritone (Neil Davies) to give us a feast of finely wrought, intelligent interpretations.
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Catalogue No: CDJ33034
Label: Hyperion
Series: Schubert Song Edition
Length: 79 minutes

Schubert: Der Alpenjäger D524 (Mayrhofer)

Work length2:20

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Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: La Pastorella, D513

Work length1:47

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Frohsinn, D520

Work length1:49

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Stephan Loges (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Grab D569 (Salis-Seewis)

Work length3:13

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Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: Die Einsiedelei, D563

Work length1:45

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Philip Langridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Atys D585

Work length4:27

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Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Dörfchen D598 (Bürger)

Work length4:24

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Kampf D594 (Schiller)

Work length5:59

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Neal Davies (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die Geselligkeit 'Lebenslust', D609

Work length3:48

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Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Sing-übungen, D619

Work length3:56

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Patricia Rozario (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Abendrot D627 (Schreiber)

Work length5:21

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Neal Davies (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Abend, D645

Work length4:37

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Martyn Hill (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Das Mädchen D652 (Schlegel)

Work length2:29

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Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Michael Vogl, D666

Work length9:56

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Lynne Dawson (soprano), Michael Schade (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Prometheus, D674 (Goethe)

Work length5:40

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Über allen Zauber Liebe D682 (Mayrhofer)

Work length3:08

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Daniel Norman (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Die gefangenen Sänger D712 (Schlegel)

Work length5:27

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Matthias Goerne (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Grenzen der Menschheit, D716

Work length7:09

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Neal Davies (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II 'Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', D768

Work length2:15

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Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Another fascinating Schubertiad, this time comprising songs from the period 1817 to 1821. As before, it contains some familiar masterpieces, some unknown masterpieces, rarities and fragments, many of them receiving their first recording. Particularly fetching are the Singbungena wordless singing exercise for two sopranos, and ber allen Zauber Liebe (Love above all magic) which, of all the Schubert fragments, is the most alluring. (Only four bars of music were needed to complete the setting and if the composer had provided the missing bars himself, and the piece subsequently published, it is hard to imagine what could have prevented the song from being known throughout the world, treasured and hummed by connoisseurs.) 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).

Artists

Lorna Anderson, Lynne Dawson, Patricia Rozario (sopranos), Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo soprano), Martyn Hill, Philip Langridge, Daniel Norman, Michael Schade (tenors), Gerald Finley, Matthias Goerne, Thomas Hampson, Simon Keenlyside, Stephan Loges, Christopher Maltman (baritones), Neal Davies (bass), Catherine Denley (mezzo soprano), John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge, Jamie Macdougall (tenors), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano

The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton

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2010

In his guise as a wizard of an impresario, Graham Johnson has gathered together four baritones and one bass-baritone (Neil Davies) to give us a feast of finely wrought, intelligent interpretations.
Hampson's rendering of that outsider's lament, Atys, is at once an object-lesson in refined singing and a deeply felt outpouring of sorrow. Keenlyside, singing with as much firm, mellow tone and feeling as his American coeval, gives a properly intense, agonised account of the great, Zeus-defying Prometheus, magnificently supported by Johnson. Goerne is assigned the seldom-heard Schlegel setting, Die gefangenenSänger, and brings his gently vibrant tone, reminiscent of his noted predecessor Herbert Janssen, and his natural gift for phrasing to bear on this strange but captivating piece. Maltman, growing in stature as a Lieder artist, begins the programme with the extrovert Der Alpenjäger and ends it with the introverted Wandrers Nachtlied on which he lavishes the hushed concentration due to a page of rapt utterance, a suitable conclusion to the performance of Goethe settings in the whole edition.
Neil Davies erupts into the series with three absorbing interpretations: the declamatory Schiller setting Der Kampf, the flowing, glowing Das Abendrot and the awe-inspiring Grenzen derMenschheit. All three evince his real affinity for the German language and the world of Schubert. He also has the low notes the pieces call for. The one female solo brings back Lipovšek at her most beguiling in the poignant and unforgettable Schlegel setting Das Mädchen, already performed just as movingly by Christine Schäfer in Vol 27. This wonderful fare is interspersed with lighter, less demanding material, all done with pleasure by varying groups of singers, plus three tenor solos.
Langridge is predictably charming in Die Einsiedelei.
Hill isn't quite at his best, and Norman's style is etiolated in their offerings. Piano playing both maintain Hyperion's usual high standard.

A feast of finely wrought, intelligent interpretations ... the readings make an indelible impression

The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 34

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