Steinberger:Holzmair:Eisenlohr
Release Date: 01 February 2006
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313256921
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SCHUBERT
Description
DEUTSCHESCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION, Vol. 21Franz Schubert (1797-1828)Poets of Sensibility, Vol. 4The EditionIn1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish acollection of all the songs which he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whomSchubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert's) luck in aletter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe:A selection of German songs will constitute thebeginning of this edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The first two (thefirst of which, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poemswritten by your Excellency, the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth andfifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Holty, Salis etc., theseventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional.TheDeutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer's original concept. AllSchubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, will be grouped according to thepoets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers, contemporaries,members of certain literary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose toset to music. Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length andquality make them worth recording, and works for two or more voices with pianoaccompaniment will also make up a part of the edition.Schubertset the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classicalGreece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century Germanauthors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, his contemporaries, and, ofcourse, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, although sadly the two never met.Theentire edition is scheduled for completion by 2005. Thanks to the NeueSchubert Ausgabe (New Schubert Edition), published by Barenreiter, whichuses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible - the performers havebeen able to benefit from the most recent research of the editorial team. Forthe first time, the listener and the interested reader can follow Schubert'stextual alterations and can appreciate the importance the written word had forthe composer.Theproject's Artistic Advisor is the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, who has chosenthose German-speaking singers who represent the elite of today's young GermanLieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution, he believes, will standthe test of time.The GottingerHainbund: Settings of poems by Matthias Claudius, Ludwig Holty, Leopold Graf zuStolberg and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter Therevolutionary 'invention' of the romantic song through Schubert is, in theminds of song-lovers, indissolubly linked with the name of Goethe and his poemsGretchen am Spinnrade and Erlkonig. Nevertheless there were, in Schubert'searly period of composition up to about 1816, other poets who played a differentpart in his development as a song-composer, but one of similarly greatimportance. The first of these is Friedrich Schiller, whose ballads and poemsinspired Schubert's earliest ex
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
