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Schubert: Schwanengesang etc

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Warner Classics

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La symphonie des oiseaux

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released January 27, 2017 | Mirare

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Schubert Sessions: Lieder with Guitar

Franz Schubert

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released October 14, 2016 | Groupe Analekta, Inc

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The Swan: Classic Works for Cello and Orchestra

Han-Na Chang

Classical - Released October 1, 2000 | Warner Classics

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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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Liszt: Orchestral Songs

Thomas Hampson

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released April 28, 2023 | Aparté

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This 2023 release from the Aparté label offers almost an embarrassment of riches. Begin with the presence of the veteran Thomas Hampson, giving Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau a run for his money as a singer who sounds great well into senior citizen-hood. There are a few shadows in the voice, but the sense of drama in Der Erlkönig is electrifying, perhaps more than ever. There are the younger singers whom Hampson has brought along for the ride, most notably soprano Sunhae Im giving commanding performances of three of Liszt's Schubert song orchestrations. There is the repertory; Liszt's orchestral songs are, in general, a neglected part of his output, and here are no fewer than four world premieres. Weimars Toten is a fascinating part of the cultural history of that metropolis, explicated nicely by annotator Klaus Aringer. There is also clear yet intimate, ideally idiomatic sound from the Lisztzentrum Raiding. One could go on with this list, but perhaps it is desirable to leave further items for listeners to discover on what will surely be multiple hearings. A wonderful recording. © James Manheim /TiVo
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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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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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Franz Schubert : Sonate Arpeggione

Anne Gastinel

Chamber Music - Released September 20, 2005 | naïve classique

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Gloire Immortelle !

Hervé Niquet

Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Le Concert des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval des animaux en péril

La Rêveuse

Classical - Released February 10, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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Several famous pieces of music based on birdsong appeared in the 19th and 20th centuries; those by Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel are here, although Messiaen is not. However, the affinity between music and birdsong had been explored for centuries before that, and the early music group La Rêveuse here provides some delightful examples. The always pictorial François Couperin is represented, as is Rameau, but other composers are less familiar but no less charming. Sample the works by Theodor Schwartzkopff, Michel Blavet, and especially Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737), whose "Les Ramages" ("The Songs") names a group of birds and then illustrates their songs. Then there are historical-instrument versions of Saint-Saëns, Britten, and Ravel. One may accept this idea or not, but even in the latter case, they don't do much to dent the charm of the whole. The program ends with a work by contemporary composer Vincent Bouchot, Le Carnaval des animaux en péril, a kind of a take-off on Saint-Saëns for the Anthropocene era that also calls forth a striking variety of instruments from La Rêveuse. Another questionable idea is that, in keeping with the practices of this group, recorded birdsong is heard between some of the tracks. Whatever aspects of this release might be doubtful, it rarely fails to bring a smile. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Babel

Jean-Louis Murat

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

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Mark Padmore

Classical - Released January 27, 2023 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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This release by tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Schubert specialists both, came with strong recital buzz on both sides of the Atlantic and landed on classical best-seller charts in early 2023. This recording was made at Wigmore Hall in London. It is Schubert's not-quite-cycle Schwanengesang (it was assembled into a set after Schubert's death) that gets top billing in the graphics, but the album opens with Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, the first true song cycle, shown on the cover in small print. The piano part in Beethoven's songs had an unprecedentedly major role in the proceedings, and the placement of the set at the beginning may serve to advise the listener of the unusual emphasis on Uchida's piano in the main Schubert attraction as well. Sample Ständchen, the most famous song in the set, or Abschied for a taste of the lively, spritely quality that is Uchida's alone. The piano-driven effect is heightened by the engineering, which puts Padmore's voice somewhat into the background, and it is not at all clear that this needed to be done. Padmore remains, however, a terrific Schubert interpreter. His voice is a bit thin in its middle register by now, but his ability to extract fine shades of meaning through slight alterations of tempo is unmatched. In general, this is a fine Schubert recording that lives up to the hype, and it is especially recommended to Uchida fans; they will discover a new facet of her talent. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Noël sous l'Empire

Quentin Guérillot

Classical - Released December 8, 2023 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Messe pour le temps présent

Pierre Henry

Electronic - Released January 1, 1967 | Universal Music Division Decca Records France

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Though it's perhaps Henry's best-known work, Messe Pour le Temps Présent isn't the best display of the powers of musique concrète. Similar to the glut of crossover Moog rock albums around the same time, Henry's occasional bursts of searing computer static are accompanied by a faux '60s go-go beat. It's an intriguing release, but works better for novelty fans and beginners who would rather have a gradual immersion into musique concrète. It earns its stars, however, for its reissue on a French CD that also includes several of Henry's other compositions, including "Variations Pour une Porte et un Soupir."© John Bush /TiVo
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Concerto Pour Une Voix

Saint-Preux

French Music - Released January 1, 2004 | Multimusical

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Stravinsky

Eiji Oue

Classical - Released April 30, 1996 | Reference Recordings CD

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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