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Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra

Munich Radio Orchestra

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | BR-Klassik

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One might react to this album with initial annoyance and ask whether it is really necessary to hear orchestrated versions of Schubert's supremely pianistic songs. It may come as a surprise, then, to find that most of these Lieder with Orchestra were arranged by great composers. They include Benjamin Britten, Jacques Offenbach, and Max Reger, who took on the job because, he said, he hated to hear a piano-accompanied song on an orchestral program. Perhaps the most surprising name to find is that of Anton Webern, but his arrangements are not the minimal, pointillistic things one might expect; he wrote these arrangements as a way of studying Schubert's music, and they are quite straightforward. Indeed, it is somewhat difficult to distinguish the arrangers simply by listening to the music; Schubert's melodic lines tend to suggest distinctive solutions. Perhaps Reger's are a bit more lush than the others, although his version of Erlkönig, D. 328, is one of the few numbers here that just doesn't work (there is no way to replicate the percussive quality of the accompaniment). As for the performances as such, Benjamin Appl is clearly an important rising baritone, and he has a wonderful natural quality in Schubert. An oddball release like this might seem an unusual choice for a singer in early career, but he contributes his own notes, and he seems to have undertaken the project out of genuine enthusiasm for the material. At the very least, he has brought some intriguing pieces out of the archives and given them highly listenable performances. The Munich Radio Orchestra, under the young Oscar Jockel, is suitably restrained and keeps out of Appl's way. This release made classical best-seller lists in the autumn of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert: Schwanengesang etc

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Orchestrated Songs

Anne Sofie von Otter

Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

How could it be less than ideal? The songs are among the greatest ever written: Gretchen am Spinnrade, Erlkönig, Nacht und Träum. The orchestrators are all superb composers: Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Webern, Reger. The singers are as good as it gets right now in German Lieder: the brilliant and sensual Anne-Sofie von Otter and the powerful and insightful Thomas Quasthoff. The conductor is arguably the greatest living conductor and the orchestra is his own trained instrument. How could it be less than ideal? It is ideal. Von Otter is terrifying in Gretchen am Spinnrade and terrified in Erlkönig, delightfully sly in An Sylvia and endlessly rapt in Nacht und Träum. Quasthoff is infinitely touching in Tränenregen and magnificently imperious as Prometheus, deeply affectionate in Du bist die Ruh and relentlessly heroic in An Schwager Kronos. Abbado brings out the best in every orchestration, but he particularly shines in the Brahms and sings in Webern and orchestrations. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe plays superbly and DG's sound is wonderful. This is an ideal Schubert recording.© TiVo
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Lieder (Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann...)

Fritz Wunderlich

Lieder (German) - Released September 14, 2018 | SWR Classic

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Schubert: Schwanengesang D. 957 / Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

Thomas Quasthoff

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert: Messe No. 6, Octuor & Le Chant du cygne

Various Artists

Classical - Released December 31, 2021 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Le Chant du Cygne, D 957

Ernst Haefliger

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released January 1, 1986 | Claves Records

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Christian Gerhaher

Classical - Released April 30, 1999 | ARTE NOVA Classics

Schwanengesang (Chant du cygne)

Benjamin Luxon

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released March 1, 2003 | Chandos

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Andrè Schuen

Classical - Released November 18, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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After receiving huge praise for his debut album on Deutsche Grammophon, baritone Andrè Schuen continues his Schubert journey. Schubert's enigmatic final collection of songs, Schwanengesang, is the subject of Andrè Schuen and his longstanding accompanist Daniel Heide's second release for Deutsche Grammophon. Schuen calls Schwanengesang "my greatest love among the Schubert lieder. Especially the Heine settings; they move me the most!". © Deutsche Grammophon
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Babel

Jean-Louis Murat

French Music - Released October 13, 2014 | [PIAS] Le Label

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Quest of the Invisible

Naïssam Jalal

Contemporary Jazz - Released March 1, 2019 | Les couleurs du son

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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet

Julian Prégardien

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Alpha Classics

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Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, sombre and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl. In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major, scored for two cellos, which was not premiered until 1850, at the Vienna Musikverein. The power and orchestral dimensions of the work make it a pinnacle of nineteenth-century chamber music. We could not have dreamt of a finer line-up of musicians to record these two Schubert monuments. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme, along with Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words No. 1 (for solo piano), composed a year after Schubert’s death and Schubert’s own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D. 744, on a poem by Johann Senn). © Alpha Classics
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Schubert : Symphony No. 7 "Unfinished" & Lieder

Stefan Gottfried

Symphonies - Released November 2, 2018 | Aparté

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J'aime ta grand-mère

Les Trois Accords

French Music - Released October 22, 2012 | La Tribu

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Ian Bostridge

Classical - Released September 23, 2022 | PentaTone

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This 2022 release of Schubert's Schwanengesang, D. 957 ("Swan Song"), which pianist Lars Vogt did not live to see, is one of the pianist's swan songs, and it makes a fitting memorial. This may be one of the factors that propelled the album onto classical best-seller lists in the autumn of 2022, but the album has intrinsic merits on which it can rest. Vogt delivers an exceptional performance as an accompanist in these pieces, which do not form a true song cycle (they were compiled by a published after Schubert's untimely death), but which point to directions Schubert would have explored had he lived and in some cases look deep into the future. To an unusual degree, they emancipate the accompaniment from the melody line, and Vogt's way of setting a whole scene with the introductions is uncanny. Sample the murky opening of Der Doppelgänger for an idea, or the famed Ständchen, which has a unique flavor here. As for the star of the show, tenor Ian Bostridge, those more comfortable with a baritone in these songs may be pleased to note a new richness in his lower register as he approaches his sixth decade, compared with the last time he recorded these songs in 2009. Otherwise, this is trademark Bostridge, with flexible lines tending toward an operatic approach, clear diction, and controlled emotion. One could argue that Vogt made an ideal foil for his style. Another draw is the presence of Einsamkeit, D. 620, a set of connected songs that shows Schubert responding directly to Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98. The real star here though, perhaps, is Vogt, and it is good to have this release to remember him.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 960

Matthias Goerne

Classical - Released April 1, 2012 | harmonia mundi

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Werner Güra, Christoph Berner

Classical - Released November 6, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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Le Bilan

Nèg' Marrons

Pop/Rock - Released March 27, 2000 | S.M.A.L.L.

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La symphonie des oiseaux

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 27, 2017 | Mirare

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