A Soprano’s Schubertiade
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2343
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st June 2018
Contents
Works
Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6)Blondel zu Marien, D626
Der Konig in Thule, D367
Gesange (4) aus Wilhelm Meister, D877
Gretchen im Zwinger, (Gretchens Bitte) D564
Jager, ruhe von der Jagd, D838 (Ellens Gesang II, op.52 no.2)
Kennst du das Land, D321
Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus, D837 (Ellens Gesang I, op.52 no.1)
Rosamunde, D797
Suleika II 'Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen', D717
Viola, D786
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Works
Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6)Blondel zu Marien, D626
Der Konig in Thule, D367
Gesange (4) aus Wilhelm Meister, D877
Gretchen im Zwinger, (Gretchens Bitte) D564
Jager, ruhe von der Jagd, D838 (Ellens Gesang II, op.52 no.2)
Kennst du das Land, D321
Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus, D837 (Ellens Gesang I, op.52 no.1)
Rosamunde, D797
Suleika II 'Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen', D717
Viola, D786
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
About
The playwright Helmina von Chézy wrote the text to the tender Romanze, intending it for her play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus to which Schubert composed incidental music. Another female author, Marianne von Willemer, wrote the two Suleika poems for Goethe, who included them (under his own name) in the collection West-östlicher Divan. And no fewer than seven of the other songs on the disc are also associated with Goethe, and his characters Mignon (from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) and Gretchen (from Faust). Schubert was for a while almost obsessed with the mysterious and waif-like Mignon, making several settings of the poems associated with her. Less of an enigma but equally moving, Schubert’s Gretchen sings of awakening desire (Gretchen am Spinnrade) and laments her coming disgrace (Gretchens Bitte).
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have collaborated on several acclaimed projects for BIS, most recently with the counter-tenor Iestyn Davies as their companion. Here they close their Soprano’s Schubertiade with three settings of poems by Walter Scott, albeit in German translations. The three ‘Ellen Songs’ are from the verse-romance The Lady of the Lake from 1810, with the last one, ‘Schubert’s Ave Maria’, being one of the composer’s best-known and most loved compositions.
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