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Franz Schubert : Sonate Arpeggione

Anne Gastinel

Chamber Music - Released September 20, 2005 | naïve classique

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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: Winterreise

Joyce DiDonato

Classical - Released April 9, 2021 | Warner Classics

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World famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin join forces to take on one of the most brilliant song cycles ever written: Schubert's Winterreise. DiDonato, however, casts a different light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs in telling their story from the perspective of the woman, the lost love. Nancy Plum, from Town Topics (Princeton) writes: "The question of what happened to the woman who sent the narrator on a tortuous journey was not answered in the Wilhelm Müller poetry from which Schubert drew the text, but DiDonato created a scenario onstage of being that woman, reading from the narrator's journal and responding to the inherent despair". "What stood out was the heavy emotion that came through in her singing, as she lingered on a syllable here, pressed her tone there. She created vivid feelings with her contrasts", wrote The New York Classical Review about Joyce Didonato's interpretation. © Warner Classics
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise & Schwanengesang

Nathalie Stutzmann

Classical - Released November 10, 2014 | Erato - Warner Classics

Booklet Distinctions 4F de Télérama
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Schubert: Schwanengesang etc

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore

Classical - Released January 1, 2001 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Aus der Ferne

Signum Quartett

Quartets - Released March 1, 2018 | PentaTone

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Franz Schubert's songs sometimes found their way into his instrumental works, perhaps most famously in the fourth movement of the Piano Quintet in A major, D667, "Trout," which was based on Die Forelle, D550; the Wanderer Fantasy in C major, D760, which was inspired by Der Wanderer, D489; and the second movement of the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810, which was based on Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531. Digging a little deeper into Schubert's oeuvre, the Signum Quartett explores less obvious relationships, though no less significant, because the mixing of songs and instrumental works was common at his private concerts for his friends, the Schubertiades. This 2018 release on PentaTone Classics, Aus der ferne, presents a handful of Lieder in arrangements for string quartet by the group's violist, Xandi van Dijk, and two lyrical chamber works, the String Quartet No. 8 in B flat major, D112, and the String Quartet No 13 in A minor, "Rosamunde." Listening to this hybrid SACD doesn't require any special research or careful bar-by-bar analysis, because Schubert's melodies are plainly evident and the Signum Quartett plays with great warmth and a light, lyrical spirit, so the program works exceptionally well as pure music, intriguing as the connections between the songs and the quartets are.© TiVo
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Schubert : Winterreise (Voyage d'hiver)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Classical - Released February 23, 2018 | Warner Classics

Distinctions Diapason d'or
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Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)

Ian Bostridge

Classical - Released August 1, 2019 | PentaTone

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Just like Pears and Britten, Ian Bostridge worked with the composer Thomas Adès on this recording of Schubert's Winterreise, made at a concert at London's famous Wigmore Hall in 2018. With his unique voice and style, the British singer divides opinion. Love him or hate him, he evokes strong feelings. As we fall into the former camp, we couldn't recommend this recording strongly enough. It is very different from the studio version recorded some years before for EMI, with the great Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Compared to that splendid record, this new version is simpler, almost calmer. Thomas Adès makes use of original manuscripts to build a fine accompaniment, that gives voice to the overwhelming melancholy of the young composer who knows himself to be doomed. Fatal wanderings, seen through a lens of solitude, regret and resignation. The first volume of a trilogy which will eventually bring together Schubert's great cycles, in live recordings by these same musicians. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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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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Schubert: Die Winterreise

Andreas Staier

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released August 29, 1997 | Warner Classics International

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Schubert: Winterreise

Brigitte Fassbaender

Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Warner Classics

Schubert knew madness. He knew it to the depths of his soul and feared it. And out of his fear he wrote the greatest monument to love lost, to death lost, to madness found. He wrote Die Winterreise, the most hopeless art work ever conceived by the despairing mind of man.Speaking of madness, is Brigitte Fassbaender nuts? A woman singing Winterreise? Although it could be argued that women are capable of experiencing the emotions of Schubert's cycle, a woman interpreting those oh-so-macho emotions is hard for most men to believe. "Nevertheless," as Galileo said, "it moves." "Can a woman interpret those emotions?" is an absurd question. Lotte Lehmann did so, and did so superbly more than 50 years ago. But, to answer the question "is Brigitte Fassbaender nuts?" the answer is "yeah, d'you've a problem with that?" After all, aside from the singer's gender and other pointless concerns, what's the most important psychological characteristic a human being needs to sing Winterreise? He/she has to be crazy or at least act the part. Fassbaender may not be crazy, but she can act. More to the point, she can act and sing and thereby convince, no, compel belief in her audience. Fassbaender's is one of the great Winterreises.© TiVo
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Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Classical - Released October 28, 2013 | Orfeo

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Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911

Leif Ove Andsnes

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (Live)

Ian Bostridge

Classical - Released November 6, 2020 | PentaTone

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Ian Bostridge continues his new exploration of Schubert song cycles with a recording of Die schöne Müllerin, together with pianist Saskia Giorgini. Die schöne Müllerin (1823) was Schubert’s first song cycle, and simultaneously Bostridge’s first extended introduction to the Lied and all its wonders. Schubert initially conceived the cycle together with poet Wilhelm Müller as a party game among friends, but gradually got captivated by the profundity of this apparently naïve love story. Bostridge is equally fascinated by the way in which this playful, folk-inspired piece gradually transforms into a cosmic lullaby in the final lines of the last song ‘des Baches Wiegenlied’. For pianist Giorgini, the key to - but also the greatest challenge of - interpreting Schubert’s music, and particularly Die schöne Müllerin, lies in the oceanic experience and hypnotic power of repetition. © Pentatone
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Schubert/Schumann Songs

Elly Ameling

Classical - Released January 1, 1980 | deutsche harmonia mundi

Distinctions The Qobuz Ideal Discography
It's not that the songs are fantastic, although Schubert and Schumann's songs are fantastic. It's not that Elly Ameling was young and full of spunk, although the young Elly Ameling was quite full of spunk. It's not that Jörg Demus is not a congenial accompanist, although he is as comfortable as a sofa and a tumbler of port. No, the reason that this disc is so terrific is that it disproves every rotten thing anyone's ever said about performances of Romantic music on period instruments because this is simply one of the most enchanting discs of echt Romantische Lieder ever recorded. Ameling's voice is so fresh and sweet, her tone so light and her technique so supple that she seems less a singer of the songs than the songs themselves given voice. And Demus' playing is so delicate but so strong, so lightly drawn, and so richly colored that one does not miss the sound of a concert grand, but rather revels in the sonorities of a hammerflugel. Only clarinetist Hans Deinzer in Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (D. 965) takes some getting used to, and that's mostly because his tone is so wonderfully ripe and his playing is so marvelously dexterous. If all recordings of Romantic music played on period instruments sounded like this, all recordings of Romantic music would be played on period instruments. This is an exquisitely beautiful recording.© TiVo
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Hans Hotter - Gerald Moore

Hans Hotter

Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | Warner Classics

Distinctions The Qobuz Ideal Discography
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Schubert: Schwanengesang, D.957; 5 Lieder

Brigitte Fassbaender

Classical - Released January 1, 1992 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Schubert: Winterreise

Thomas Hampson

Classical - Released January 1, 1997 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Lieder

Hans Hotter

Classical - Released June 1, 1994 | Warner Classics