The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 24

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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 24

A Goethe Schubertiad

Christine Schäfer (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton

Renewed praise first of all for Graham Johnson.
This volume is as cogent an example as any of his method, a masterly exposition, in written words and musical performance, of the crucial relationship... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDJ33024
Label: Hyperion
Series: Schubert Song Edition
Length: 78 minutes

Schubert: Schäfers Klagelied, D121 Second version

Work length3:40

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: An Mignon, D161 First version

Work length1:36

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Geistes-Gruss, D142 Third version

Work length1:30

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Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Geistes-Gruss, D142 Sixth version

Work length2:06

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Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Rastlose Liebe, D138

Work length1:29

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Gott und die Bajadere, D254

Work length9:02

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Tischlied, D234

Work length1:27

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Schatzgräber, D256

Work length4:49

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Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Rattenfänger, D255

Work length2:26

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Bundeslied, D258

Work length2:26

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

Schubert: Erlkönig, D328

Work length4:23

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Jägers Abendlied, D215

Work length1:31

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Jägers Abendlied, Second Setting, D368

Work length2:35

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass 'Harfenspieler III', D478 No 2

Work length2:07

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass 'Gesang des Harfners', D478 No 2b

Work length1:46

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt 'Sehnsucht', D359

Work length2:19

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: So lasst mich scheinen 'Mignon, 1. Weise', D469 I

Work length0:22

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: So lasst mich scheinen, D469 II

Work length0:38

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt 'Sehnsucht' 'Lied der Mignon', D481

Work length2:02

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt 'Sehnsucht', D656

Work length3:09

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The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

Schubert: An Schwager Kronos, D369

Work length2:58

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Hoffnung, D295

Work length1:27

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Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Mahomets Gesang, D549

Work length3:50

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Ganymed, D544 (Goethe)

Work length4:08

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Christine Schäfer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Der Goldschmiedsgesell, D560

Work length2:02

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Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D484

Work length4:45

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Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (piano)

Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D705

Work length7:50

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Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale
Stephen Layton

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This twenty-fourth issue in The Hyperion Schubert Edition brings together twenty-seven of the numerous Goethe-settings made by Schubert in his short life. Poems by the German masterpoet, playwright, artist, scientist, philosopher, politicianflooded into the creative conscience of the young composer. Included is the completion by Eugene Asti of an unfinished masterpiece, Gesang der Geister ber den Wassern D705, never before recorded. Christine Schfer (in her debut recording), John Mark Ainsley, Simon Keenlyside, Michael George and the London Schubert Chorale join the accompanist and director of this series, Graham Johnson. 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

Renewed praise first of all for Graham Johnson.
This volume is as cogent an example as any of his method, a masterly exposition, in written words and musical performance, of the crucial relationship between Goethe and Schubert upon which Johnson throws a good deal of new light.
Not all here is notable Schubert, but the lesser songs serve to place in perspective the greater ones.
The CD begins with one of the latter, SchäfersKlagelied, in a finely honed, dramatic performance by Ainsley, who's heard later on the disc always to advantage. Good as Christine Schäfer is in the first version of An Mignon, she's better in the sadly neglected Der Gott und die Bajadere, as Johnson avers. This is the only song in the genre about prostitution, and a haunting one too, even though, throughout its appreciable length, it relies on just one melody, and Schäfer precisely catches its haunting atmosphere. But the climax of her contribution comes in Ganymed – with Johnson providing exactly the right rhythmic lilt at the piano, her voice conveys all the elation of poem and music.
Schäfer is the child in a three-voice rendering of Erlkönig, a manner of performing the piece that has the composer's blessing. Johnson has surely never surpassed his account here of the hair-raisingly difficult piano part. George, who perhaps has the least ingratiating songs to perform, sings with feeling and style but sometimes an excess of vibrato. An invaluable addition to the series.

The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 24

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