Schubert: Lieder

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Cat No: 8553113

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099411325

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: SCHUBERT

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Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) [1] Ganymed D. 544 (Op. 19, No.3) [2] Liebhaber in allen Gestalten D. 558 [3] Nacht und Träume D. 827 [4] Geheimes D. 719 (Op. 14, No.2) [5] Abendstern D. 806 [6] Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D. 965 (Op. 129) [7] Suleika D. 720 (Op. 14, No.1) [8] Seligkeit D.433 [9] Wiegenlied D. 498 (Op. 98, No.2) [10] Gretchen am Spinnrade D.118 (Op. 2) [11] An die Entfemte D. 765 [12] lm Frühling D. 882 (Op. 101, No.1) [13] Suleikas Zweiter Gesang D. 717 (Op. 31) [14] Du bist die Ruh D. 776 (Op. 59, No.3) [15] Lied der Mignon D. 877/4 (?) [16] Nachtviolen D. 752 [17] Der Musensohn D. 764 (Op. 92, No.1) [18] Die Forelle D. 550 Although not of Viennese parentage, Franz Schubert was born in Vienna, the son of a schoolmaster, and spent his short life there, often in the company of friends, who took particular pleasure in the music he wrote for their entertainment. Unlike Beethoven, who died a year before him, he never enjoyed the patronage of the nobility, and occupied no official position in the musical life of the city, although at the time of his death publishers were showing increasing interest in his work. Schubert's early musical training had been as a chorister of the Imperial Chapel, a position that allowed general education at the Staats-Konvikt in Vienna. Rejecting the offer of further study there, he trained briefly as a teacher, and from 1815 taught intermittently at his father's school, while concentrating his energies on composition. He showed a particular gift in the writing of songs, and in 1815 wrote some 150, with 100 more the following year. By the time of his death in November 1828 he had written over 600 songs of unfailing inspiration, miraculous couplings of words and music, in which both melody and piano accompaniment serve a dramatic purpose. The poems chosen vary in quality, with more than seventy settings of words by Goethe, settings of Schiller, of Matthias Claudius, of Heine, of Metastasio, and, in translation, Scott and Shakespeare, with others of verses by less gifted contemporaries and friends, works to which the music has given life and eternity. The present collection opens with a setting of Goethe' s poem Ganyrned, based on the legend of the beautiful boy Ganymede, seized by Zeus to become cup-bearer to the gods, the final postlude reflecting this ascent. In the lively strophic Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (Love in All Forms), the lover wishes he were a fish, a horse, a carriage or gold, to be with his mistress, but now she must accept him for what he is. The gentle Geheimes (Secret) recognises the loved one's seemingly questing gaze, although the object of love is known to the poet. Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel) is from Goethe's Faust. Here Gretchen spins and longs for the return of her lover, the transformed Faust, who seduces and deserts her. The rhythm of the spinning-wheel is heard in the accompaniment, but finally falters. In An die Entfernte (To the Distant Beloved)
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