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Schubert - Meta

Claire Huangci

Classical - Released October 20, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Lebensmuth

Signum Quartett

Quartets - Released May 19, 2023 | PentaTone

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This is (apparently) the last in a series of releases from the Signum Quartett combining string quartets by the composer with arrangements of Schubert songs by the group's violist, Xandi van Dijk. That idea is unusual nowadays but wouldn't have been in Schubert's day. The idea is to put a personal flavor to Schubert's music, and quiet, clear recording ambiance of the Sendesaal Bremen contributes nicely to the effect. Here, the group's aim is right on the surface, for the album contains Schubert's first string quartet and his last one. Each seems to be on the verge of new breakthroughs. The String Quartet in G major, D. 18, written when Schubert was no more than 14, is an odd work, with each of its four movements in different keys. The movements may have been written at different times, but even the act of calling it a string quartet was an ambitious one. That work is nicely integrated with the songs by the group, which sets a quiet chamber atmosphere consistent with everything we know about the way Schubert's music was performed during his own lifetime. The String Quartet in G major, D. 887, is something else again, a large work stretching the boundaries of the genre as it was known. It was Schubert's last work in the genre. Yet even this fits with the general idea of the album; at the end of his life, with death a definite presence, he was striving toward new dimensions for the string quartet, just as he had at the beginning. The work stands out sharply from the others on the album and is played in a much more full-blooded way, but this is really the idea on a release that plunges the listener into Schubert's own life. © James Manheim /TiVo

Elysium - A Schubert Recital

Carolyn Sampson

Classical - Released March 3, 2023 | BIS

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Elysium (the Elysian Fields) was a Greek notion of the positive afterlife that dates back as far as Homer. The early Romantics were fascinated by its resonances, and if the organizing principle of this recital by the increasingly Schubert-oriented soprano Carolyn Sampson seems a bit vague, well, so was the concept in Schubert's time. It extended into realms of sleep, ghost stories, the moon and stars, and really many kinds of spirituality -- religious and otherwise. CD buyers get an enlightening booklet note by the song historian Susan Youens that amplifies the tightly woven sequence of songs Sampson offers here. There are a few Schubert hits, but also some lieder that only Schubert buffs will have heard, such as the title track, setting a lengthy ode by Schiller. The program is one that Sampson and accompanist managed to perform in recital at the height of the pandemic, and it is clear that she has lived in the songs for a while and knows their little turns. In general, it is a delightfully moody set that features deep interaction between Sampson and Joseph Middleton, with the latter grabbing the listener's attention right from the opening bars. Sampson's voice in mid-career has developed a slight and not unpleasant metallic tinge that she deploys well in the reflective moods of these songs and that blooms startlingly in the final melodrama Abschied von der Erde, D. 829. Consider the knife's-edge opening long note in Nacht und Träume, D. 827, also a splendid example of Middleton's art. With excellent Potton Hall sound, this is an absorbing Schubert recital that will bring new insights.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Franz Schubert : "Erlkönig" (Lieder, vol. 7)

Matthias Goerne

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released February 25, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Franz Schubert : Nacht und Träume (Lieder, vol. 5)

Matthias Goerne

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released January 4, 2011 | harmonia mundi

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An die Musik - Schubert: Lieder

Elly Ameling

Classical - Released January 1, 1983 | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

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Vanitas - Beethoven, Schubert & Rihm

Georg Nigl

Classical - Released November 13, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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Like the paintings of the Flemish Baroque painters, the ‘vanities’ presented here can be approached in two ways: on the one hand, as manifestations of doubts and anxieties at the fragility of human life; on the other, as delights to be savoured without moderation, celebrating earthly life through the senses and the pleasure that human beings can derive from them. After two critically acclaimed recordings each for Alpha, the baritone Georg Nigl and the pianist Olga Pashchenko explore the tortuous meanders of the human soul with vocal works by Schubert (an ‘existentialist’ composer if ever there was one), Beethoven (whose torments hardly need stressing) and the contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm, whose highly expressionistic Jakob Lenz Nigl performed on stage in 2019. His piece Vermischter Traum, here given its world premiere, is dedicated to the Austrian singer. © Alpha Classics
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Franz Schubert : Wanderers Nachtlied (Lieder, vol. 8)

Matthias Goerne

Lieder (German) - Released February 10, 2014 | harmonia mundi

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Insomnia

Katharina Konradi

Classical - Released April 28, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Werner Güra, Christoph Berner

Classical - Released November 6, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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Heimweh: Schubert Lieder

Anna Lucia Richter

Classical - Released February 1, 2019 | PentaTone

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Schubert: Lieder

Bernarda Fink, Gerold Huber

Classical - Released September 2, 2008 | harmonia mundi

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Schubert: Lieder

Christine Schäfer

Classical - Released September 15, 1997 | Orfeo

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Schubert : Goethe Lieder

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Classical - Released January 1, 1960 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe. Lieder

Samuel Hasselhorn

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released May 6, 2022 | harmonia mundi

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His debut recording devoted to Schumann offered a brilliant opportunity to discover the name of Samuel Hasselhorn, a young baritone deeply invested in the art of lieder. With his collaborator Joseph Middleton, he now turns to Schubert, in an insightful programme evoking some of the themes dear to the Viennese master of song: nature, night-time, parting, absence, and death. Both essential and less familiar songs are featured side by side in this poignant depiction of profound self-reflection that can rank among the most moving examples of what the Romantic temperament has ever produced. © harmonia mundi

Heimat (Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Reger, Grieg, Britten...)

Benjamin Appl

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released March 10, 2017 | Sony Music Classical Local

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Where Only Stars Can Hear Us: Schubert Songs

Karim Sulayman

Classical - Released March 6, 2020 | Avie Records

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Tenor Karim Sulayman is a charismatic figure who has lent his voice and image to activist causes and been photographed in tattooed, topless states. In this recital of Schubert songs, however, he plays it straight. Sulayman has specialized mostly in Baroque music, and he aims for, and delivers, sheer beauty of tone. It's well suited to this collection of Schubert songs, many of which deal with nocturnal themes and, for the most part, not terribly common items. As a star vehicle, the collection works well for the most part. Sulayman includes some Schubert standards, with Erlkönig, D. 328, being the most standard of all, and here, he's not quite as effective; his voice, at this point, doesn't have the variety to make the narrative songs really come alive. Yet at no point is Sulayman anything less than attractive to listen to, and the quietly confident accompaniment work of Yi-heng Yang is another positive. Sulayman's future may lie in the more flamboyant Baroque, but he has potential as a Schubertian should he choose to go that route.© TiVo

An die Musik: Schubert Lieder

Elly Ameling

Classical - Released January 1, 1983 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Schubert Night Songs

Ian Bostridge

Classical - Released January 13, 2023 | PentaTone

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Schubert: Songs for Male Chorus

Robert Shaw

Classical - Released January 1, 1994 | Telarc