Franz Peter Schubert

Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, and Heine. The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition presents all Schubert’s Lieder, over 700 songs, grouped according to the poets who inspired him. Thanks to Bärenreiter’s Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (New Schubert Edition), Tübingen, which uses primary sources, the performers have been able to benefit from the most recent research of the editorial team.

Of his Perspectives series of recordings for AVIE, Andreas Haefliger says, “In creative programming, I have always seen an opportunity for illuminating the individuality of works by placing them in tonal, dramatic and historic relief. Thus, through the sequence of a recital program, repertoire that has long been familiar to us is put into a new perspective. This series is a document of my concert activity and aims at bringing the recital experience to the living room.”

This recital offers the perspective of a great Schubert Sonata that despite its originality also shows its indebtedness to Beethoven. The two popular Beethoven Sonatas have features that resonated deeply with Schubert, who adored the older composer and persistently used his works as models.

Previous releases in this series Perspectives 1 (AV 0041) which contrasts Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert with Thomas Adès, and Perspectives 2 (AV 2082) which juxtaposes Beethoven, Brahms and Bartók.

Barthold Kuijken (b. 1949) studied flute and recorder at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague. As member of the Collegium Aureum and later of La Petite Bande he gained experience with repertoire ranging from Baroque to early Romanticism. He often joins in concerts with his brothers Sigiswald and Wieland and harpsichordists Robert Kohnen and Gustav Leonhardt, He teaches at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague.

A performance by a master of his craft, playing pieces by Bach, Telemann, Schubert, Mozart and Couperin.

Born in 1974,Transylvanian pianist Ferenc Vizi graduated with first prize from the Paris Conservatoire in 1998. He has also carried off a number of other prestigious prizes: 1st in the Saratov competition (Russia, 2000), 4th in the Hamamatsu (Japan, 2000), 2nd prize and special jury prize in the Arthur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv, 2001) and 2nd prize in the Munich ARD competition in 2002. He regularly partners as a chamber musician the 'cellists Henri Demarquette, François Salque and Françoise Groben, and the violinists Graf Mourja and Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian.