Schubert: Hyperion Song Edition 1 - Goethe and Schiller Settings
7/28/2023, 19 Tracks, 1:09:32
Featuring
Dame Janet Baker
Graham Johnson
Franz Schubert
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Recording & Production
The Hyperion Schubert Edition will be the first truly complete survey of Schubert's song output because it includes all the women's songs.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The series aims to display Schubert's songs a few at a time, allowing listeners to appreciate less-known works alongside famous ones, reflecting Schubert's own priorities of interplay between great and small.
Composer Biography
Schubert's song output was so vast that it bewildered his friends and contemporaries, and even enthusiastic Schubertians have found it perplexing.
Recording & Production
This recording features Dame Janet Baker, a mezzo-soprano, and Graham Johnson, a pianist, who also wrote the commentaries for the individual songs.
Recording & Production
This album is the first volume in The Hyperion Schubert Edition, a complete survey of Schubert's song output.
Critical Reception
Until relatively recently, the sheer number of Schubert's songs (six hundred or more) discouraged further investigation by the general musical public.
Recording & Production
Each disc in this series offers a selection of songs carefully balanced between rare and familiar pieces, with the program built around a specific singer.
