The Hyperion Schubert Edition 18 / Peter Schreier, Graham Johnson

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Volume 18 in Hyperion's complete Schubert song series features tenor Peter Schreier, who presents a lovely program rich in Romantic imagery. The highlight of this disc is the mini song cycle On the Wild Paths to poems by Ernst Schulze. These are typically full of "nature" themes: stars, waves, the forest, the seasons--that sort of thing, and it's just amazing how Schubert comes up with a totally apt accompaniment for each poem. Heavy German, to be sure, but great music too. --David Hurwitz

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Peter Schreier Sings Schubert

The Hyperion Schubert Edition 18 / Peter Schreier, Graham Johnson
Franz Schubert , Peter Schreier , and Graham Johnson
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ASIN: B000002ZFC
Release Date: 1993-09-01

Tracks:

Das Finden
Die Nacht
An den Schlaf
Blumenlied
Auf den Tod einer Nachtigall
Erntelied
An die Harmonie
Das Heimweh
Abendlied
An die Entfernte
Drang In Die Ferne
Das Heimweh
Poetisches Tagebuch: Auf der Bruck
Poetisches Tagebuch: Um Mitternacht
Poetisches Tagebuch: O Quell, was stromst du rasch und wild
Poetisches Tagebuch: Der liebliche Stern
Poetisches Tagebuch: Im Janner 1817 (Tiefes Leid)
Poetisches Tagebuch: Im Walde
Poetisches Tagebuch: Im Fruhling
Poetisches Tagebuch: Lebensmut
Poetisches Tagebuch: Uber Wildemann
Poetisches Tagebuch: An mein Herz

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Volume 18 in Hyperion's complete Schubert song series features tenor Peter Schreier, who presents a lovely program rich in Romantic imagery. The highlight of this disc is the mini song cycle On the Wild Paths to poems by Ernst Schulze. These are typically full of "nature" themes: stars, waves, the forest, the seasons--that sort of thing, and it's just amazing how Schubert comes up with a totally apt accompaniment for each poem. Heavy German, to be sure, but great music too. --David Hurwitz

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Peter Schreier Sings Schubert.......2004-08-21

This CD is volume 18 of the monumental recording of the complete Schubert songs on the Hyperion label. The performers are tenor Peter Schreier and pianist Graham Johnson. Johnson served as the artistic director of the entire project. He accompanies on each disk and wrote the extensive and scholarly liner notes for each volume. Peter Schreier sings in a light, lyrical tenor, which is yet capable of great expression and feeling. He is at the top of his form in this outstanding recording. The Hyperion collection offers an unparallelled oppotunity to hear a variety of the great singers of our day performing the Schubert songs.

There are 22 songs on this CD, almost all of which are in Schubert's simplest song style called strophic. Strophic songs are in a familiar stanza (similar to a church hymn) form in which the same music is used to set each verse. The form is common, but in lengthy songs it runs the risk of monotony.

Johnson's detailed liner-notes (almost book-length) begin with an introduction titled "Schubert and the Strophic Song" in which he traces the antecedents of Schubert's song forms in earlier composers and illustrates the many variations and subtleties Scubert brought to his compositions. Johnson sees many of the songs on this disk as pointing to the way to Schubert's final masterpieces, the song-cycles Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise, both of which are predominantly strophic in form. He also points out the many beauties of these songs themselves. The liner notes also include extensive commentary, musical analysis, and biographical information on each of the songs, including text and translation. Johnson is a passionate and informed guide indeed to the Schubert lieder.

The songs on this CD fall into two basic groups. The first 11 tracks consist of a series of early strophic songs, most of which date from 1815-1816. These songs vary greatly in mood, intensity, and in the variety Schubert brings to the piano accompaniment. The songs I most enjoyed in this group include "Erntelied" (Harvest Song), D. 434, which Schubert set in 18166 to a poem by Ludwig Holty, and "Drang in Die Ferne" (Longing to Escape) D. 770, which Schubert set in 1823 to a text by Karl Gottfried von Leitner. The former is a bucolic song with ties, as Johnson points out to Mozart's famous song Das Veilchen (the violet) while the later work is full of a young man's longing to break free of the comforts of home and to explore the world and its risks for himself. It must surely have had a personal meaning for Schubert.

The second group of songs on this CD focus on a series of Schubert's settings of poems by Ernest Schulze (1789-1817). Scubert wrote this great group of songs in 1825-1826. Again Johnson provides full biographical information. Schulze's poems derive from a "poetic daybook" to express his frustration over an unrequited love. These are passionate, driven, texts and songs which Schreier performs masterfully. Johnson has ordered the ten songs on this CD to form an early Schubert song-cycle.

The first of the group "Auf Der Bruck" D. 853 shows the lover returning by horseback to try to win the woman who has spurned him. The song features an incessant and very difficult beat in the piano part. I was transported by the next song "Am Mitternacht" (At Midnight) D. 862, a song of deep longing. Johnson describes this song well and eloquently as "celestial music of the spheres, a stately dance to the music of timelessness, an impression that deepens as strophe follows strophe."

The Schulze collection includes on of Schubert's most famous songs "In Fruhling" (in spring) D. 882 set to a winsome piano and with bittersweet variations in each stanza. The final three Schulze songs "Lebesmut (Courage for Living) "Uber Wildemann" (Above Wildemann) and "An Mein Herz" (to my heart) are among the strangest, wildest, and most passionate music that Schubert wrote.

Schubert's songs are music for the heart. They are well suited for CD and for listening in quiet, intimate moments when one is alone with oneself. The songs are also works which will bear endless rehearing and much study. The liner notes on this albums, not to speak of the performance, make it a treasure. The listener who as heard Schubert's most familiar songs and has a passion to explore this music in detail will be overjoyed by this CD and by the Hyperion series of the complete Schubert lieder.

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