There are many supremely beautiful volumes in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition -- Fassbaender's, Popp's, Ameling's, Hampson's, Bostridge's -- but this Goethe Schubertiad is as supremely beautiful as the best of them. Of course, Goethe always brought out the best in the passionate young composer and his Goethe songs are among the greatest of ...
One would have thought that at some point Graham Johnson would simply have run out of great Schubert songs in compiling his Schubert edition. And one would have been wrong: even here at volume 35 in a program with the unwieldy title of Schubert, 1822 -- 1825, Johnson has seemingly saved some of the best for nearly the end. But what else could a ...
With songs like Der Einsame (D. 800), Der Wanderer an den Mond D. 870, the three Shakespeare settings (D. 888, 889, and 891), and the four Mignon Lieder (D. 877), this volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert cannot miss. And it doesn't: with baritone Richard Jackson's lonely but cheerful Der Einsame and Der Wanderer an den Mond, tenor John Mark ...
This is the first Schubertiad in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition, the first collection of songs grouped by a single year but sung by a group of singers. The year is 1815, Schubert's 18th, which means a lot of love songs and a lot of drinking songs, several romances, and -- given that 1815 was the last year of the Napoleonic Wars -- a couple of ...
It's a man's, man's, man's, man's volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition: songs for tenors, baritones, male chorus, and songs for men, about men, and to men. It's a great, great, great, great volume. John Mark Ainsley is one of the best tenors in England and is suave, strong, and sensitive with a tiny little catch in his voice. His Willkommen ...
As Graham Johnson's Schubert edition rolled toward its conclusion, some of the volumes inevitably became catch-alls for songs that had not yet been shoe-horned into any of Johnson's earlier collections of Schubertiads. Before this volume of Schubert 1817-1821, there was "The Young Schubert" -- songs from 1810 though 1814 -- and after this, there ...
Any volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition that has one of the numerous settings of Matthisson's Der Geistertanz is a good volume. And that this volume starts with the men of the London Schubert Chorale belting out the slightly inebriated 1816 setting from the D. 494 is a great start to what proves to be a great volume in the series. How ...
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