The ongoing giant project on the part of the Naxos label to record all of Schubert's songs is based on a classification scheme originally suggested by Schubert himself in a private publication of some of his songs: he grouped them by poet. The specific reaction of Schubert to Goethe's poetry has provided fertile ground for singers' interpretations ...
Once in awhile Naxos drops an unexpected bonus into the basket, and Ferruccio Busoni: Songs is just such a delight. It consists of 18 lieder rendered by expert Swiss baritone Martin Bruns of which the first 12 were all written before Busoni reached the age of 20. The early songs are suffused with the bloom of youth and, while not technically ...
These are beautifully sung, emotionally nuanced performances of 18 of Schubert's settings of Schiller arranged in a nicely balanced program. Unfortunately, it has two things against it: ballades that seem to go on forever, and second and even third versions of settings of the same text. Maya Boog has a haunting lyrical soprano, Lothar Odinius has ...
These are all early Schubert songs, and few of them are very known; one, Die Mainacht, is sometimes performed along with a Brahms setting of the same poem by Ludwig Hölty. Fortepianist and liner note writer Ulrich Eisenlohr tries to claim that in these songs Schubert "developed the technical command that gave him assurance in his decisive steps ...
It is wonderful to see a collection of Schubert's setting of pietistic poetry by Friedrich Klopstock and Friedrich Matthisson, especially the lesser-known settings like the early Hermann und Thusnelda and the first setting of Der Geistertanz alongside such old favorites as Dem Unendlichen and An Laura. But it is especially wonderful to see them ...
Here's something you don't see every day: an exciting album of obscure Schubert songs. Although it looks like just another volume of yet another complete edition (specifically, Vol. 17 of Naxos' Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition), this effort by baritone Detlef Roth and pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, devoted entirely to songs on poems by Schubert's ...
The Naxos complete edition of Schubert songs continues to wend its deliberate way with this, the 22nd release of the series and the fifth devoted to what are here called "poets of sensibility." The German word is "Empfindsamkeit," which is closer to sensitivity than mere sensibility, but the idea of organizing Schubert's songs according to their ...
Mozart's songs usually appear in single-disc collections, for to fill out two discs to make up Mozart's "complete" songs, as is done on this Naxos release, requires the inclusion of peripheral items such as the mandolin version of Die Zufriedenheit (Was frag ich viel nach Geld und Gut), K. 349; the very early An die Freude, K. 53 (which is not a ...
The Naxos label's complete Schubert edition has featured some strong performers, but its real virtue has been the group of insights that emerge from the groupings of songs that many of the individual albums have brought together. This release features "part-songs," for SATB voices with piano accompaniment. For Schubert this medium did not connote ...
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