SCHUBERT Der Wanderer and other songs
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Composer or Director: Franz Schubert
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 03/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 64
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA68010
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(Der) Wanderer |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Der) Wanderer an den Mond |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Aus 'Heliopolis' I |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Aus 'Heliopolis' II |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Auf der Donau |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Auf der Bruck |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Der) Schiffer |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Das) Heimweh |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Der) Kreuzzug |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Abschied, 'Farewell' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Wandrers Nachtlied I |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Wandrers Nachtlied II |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Herbst |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Meeres Stille (second version) |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Der) Pilgrim |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Die) Götter Griechenlands |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Im Walde, 'Waldesnacht' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
(Die) Mutter Erde |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Florian Boesch, Baritone Franz Schubert, Composer Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Author: David Patrick Stearns
The song choices are partly to blame. Exploring this kind of Romantic-era archetype involves solitary figures, whether hermits or people who have been rejected by society and left to contemplate the nature of their being. Several songs have the same titles: the composer isn’t heard in multiple settings of the same text but definitely revisits similar poetic territory. The slow-and-soft approach is laudable in theory for mining these often modest creations for hidden depths of expressivity, though there is a point at which their musical examination brings songs to a near standstill. Cohesion and shape are lost. You wonder at times if the music is taking more time to perform than Schubert spent composing it. In all fairness, though, ‘Abschied’, D475, which clocks in at 5'07", has been known to last two minutes longer in performances by Matthias Goerne. ‘Meeres Stille’, D216, a song about the calm sea, is sometimes a shade above audibility. One stretch of the CD has four such songs consecutively. So does Winterreise, you might argue, but in a cycle with a clear emotional and architectural trajectory.
Of course, there’s plenty of artistry here. For all the conceptual orientation of the disc, Boesch isn’t the sort of singer who tells you what to think or feel in this music. He lays it out with hugely attractive (and protracted) clarity and then lets you enter the music a fuller participant. And in many ways, the repertoire shows the roads that led to the well-known Schubert cycles. Maybe all of that means that this disc’s main appeal is to the most serious students of Schubert.
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