Schubert - Lieder Recital
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT1519
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 11th May 2018
Contents
Works
Abendbilder, D650An die Laute, D905
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, op.72 D774
Auflosung, D807
Das Heimweh, D851
Das Lied im Grunen, D917
Das war ich, D174
Der Geistertanz, D116
Der Musensohn, op.92 no.1 D764
Der Winterabend, D938
Der blinde Knabe, D833
Die Gotter Griechenlands, D677
Die schone Mullerin, D795
Gesange (3) des Harfners, D478-480
Nacht und Traume, D827
Standchen, D889 'Horch! Horch! Die Lerch'
Vor meiner Wiege, D927
Artists
Peter Pears (tenor)Benjamin Britten (piano)
Works
Abendbilder, D650An die Laute, D905
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, op.72 D774
Auflosung, D807
Das Heimweh, D851
Das Lied im Grunen, D917
Das war ich, D174
Der Geistertanz, D116
Der Musensohn, op.92 no.1 D764
Der Winterabend, D938
Der blinde Knabe, D833
Die Gotter Griechenlands, D677
Die schone Mullerin, D795
Gesange (3) des Harfners, D478-480
Nacht und Traume, D827
Standchen, D889 'Horch! Horch! Die Lerch'
Vor meiner Wiege, D927
Artists
Peter Pears (tenor)Benjamin Britten (piano)
About
The two men got to know each other in 1937 through their work for the BBC – Pears was a member of the BBC Singers and Britten was regularly writing music for radio productions. A year later they began sharing a London flat and gradually they moved into the close relationship that would last until Britten’s death.
This Schubert Lieder programme by Britten and Pears originated in three separate broadcasts for the BBC. They began their sequence on 4 February 1959 with a song from the last year of the composer’s life, Der Winterabend, D.938.
The 15 November 1961 broadcast was launched with a difficult and strenuous song, Auflösung, D.807, to Johann Mayrhofer’s poem. Through their dramatic singing and playing, Pears and Britten achieve the intended ecstatic state. Like the great American baritone David Bispham on a famous 78rpm disc, Pears sings the delightful serenade ‘Hark, hark, the lark’ in Shakespeare’s original English – the poem comes from Cymbeline and Schubert made his setting, D.889, in 1826.
For their 3 January 1964 broadcast, Pears and Britten were in quite an introspective mood, beginning with the immensely sad, resigned Ihr Grab, D.736, a Karl August Engelhardt setting probably from 1822.
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