Schubert wrote that his famous "Ave Maria" (Ellens Gesang III) touches hearts and inspires devotion because he only composed such hymns when genuinely moved by a devout mood.
Performer Biography
Pianist Joseph Middleton is the director of Leeds Lieder, musician in residence at Pembroke College Cambridge, and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
Composer Biography
Schubert composed Blondel zu Marien while working as a music tutor for the daughters of the Hungarian Count Esterházy in 1818.
Album & Artwork
The album's concept, "A Soprano's Schubertiade," explores Schubert's empathy with women through songs to women, by women, about women, and for women.
Compositional Technique
The version of Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt on this album is Schubert's sixth and final setting of the poem, a thorough reworking of an earlier song.
Composer Biography
Schubert composed Viola in March 1823, while suffering the early effects of incurable syphilis, and the poem by his best friend Franz von Schober tragically reflects this.
Composition History
The poems for Schubert's Suleika I and Suleika II were written by Marianne von Willemer, who fell in love with Goethe, and he included them in his anthology under his own name.
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