Release Date: 01 November 2005
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313256822
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SCHUBERT
Description
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)Poets of Sensibility, Volume 3The Gottinger Hainbund: Settings of poemsby Matthias Claudius, Ludwig Holty andLeopold Graf zu StolbergThe unique quality of Schubert as a song composer waslargely associated with the appearance of the two great,inspired Goethe settings, Gretchen am Spinnrade(1814) and Erlkonig (1815). The astounding originalityof these two compositions became the revolutionarystart of a whole epoch, initiating the setting of poemswith new standards and means, in which the strophicform was entirely abandoned and the hitherto secondarymusical 'accompaniment' was set free and given equalimportance with the poem. The exceptional nature ofthe two songs is undisputed, but this is a one-sided wayof looking at it. Many song-composers before Schuberthad already gone far in a similar direction, and aboveall the ballad compositions of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg,highly prized by Schubert and taken up with greatenthusiasm, had done much to prepare the way.At the same time there was, in Schubert's earlycareer, a group of poets of signal importance in hisdevelopment as a song-composer. These were the poetsof Empfindsamkeit, as well as those poets who, rootedin the Pietist tradition, in the middle of the eighteenthcentury, as a sign of newly awakened bourgeois selfawareness,created a new form of prose and poeticwriting. Individual feeling, personal sensibility beyonddogmatic guidelines and points of view, the reaction ofthe soul in face of all aspects of life and death, stood atthe centre of their writing. With this they were notopposed to the Enlightenment's ideal of reason, but sawit as a necessary completion of the self. Understandingand feeling should be brought together, united in thetrue sensibility of the heart. Stemming from England,the movement found considerable scope in Germanspeakingregions. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was itsforerunner, Friedrich Matthisson its most prominentrepresentative.In the university town of Gottingen in about 1772some poets came together, giving their association thename Hainbund after an ode by Klopstock, Der H??gelund der Hain (The Hill and the Grove). Among theirnumber were Ludwig Holty, Johann Heinrich Voss, thebrothers Stolberg and others. Close to them stood,together with Klopstock himself, Matthias Claudius andthe ballad writer Gottfried August B??rger. It wasparticularly the simple, folk-style poems of the groupthat Schubert chose for his settings. With theirindividual basic attitude, always striving for emotionaland intellectual truth, they were personally near to him.Yet also in stylistic and technical approach they areimportant for Schubert as a song-composer. In his'training' as a composer of the apparently simple formof the strophic or varied strophic song, he developed acommanding technique which, in his various writings,established him alongside the 'revolutionary' songcomposersmentioned at the beginning.The many songs, particularly those of the earlyyears between 181
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
