Daniela Sindram, the mezzo-soprano on this recording, has performed major operatic roles from Gluck and Mozart to Richard Strauss and Wagner, including Cherubino, Idamante, and Octavian.
Composition History
In 1816, Franz Schubert and his friends planned to publish a collection of all his songs, starting with an eight-volume edition.
Recording & Production
The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition aims to record all of Schubert's over 700 Lieder, grouped by poets or literary circles, and includes fragments and alternative settings.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert often chose to set poems by 'dilettante poets' if they possessed profound ideas, vivid imagery, emotional truth, and compatibility with his worldview.
Performer Biography
Ulrich Eisenlohr, the pianist and artistic leader of the Naxos Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition, has an extensive concert career in Europe, America, and Japan, specializing in song accompaniment and chamber music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Schubert set poetry from over 115 writers, including classical Greek, medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century German, early Romantic, and Biedermeier poets.
Historical Context
Some of Schubert's flower songs and ballads had a coded political background, speaking 'through flowers' about the French Revolution and the Restoration era, which could not be expressed openly during the Metternich era.
