Schubert: Schwanengesang

Featuring

Ian Bostridge
Lars Vogt
Franz Schubert

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Composition History

Schubert had intended the Rellstab and Heine song groups within Schwanengesang to be performed together, as indicated by an autograph in the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Composer Biography

Schubert died at the age of 31, impecunious, on November 19, 1828.

Composition History

Schubert wrote a letter to his publisher Heinrich Probst shortly before his death, inquiring about the publication of several major works, including the E-flat Major Piano Trio and the String Quintet.

Composer Biography

Schubert contracted syphilis as a young man, which meant he was effectively a 'genital leper' for the last five years of his short life.

Composition History

Schwanengesang was a title invented by Tobias Haslinger, Schubert's publisher, when he published fourteen of Schubert's late songs in 1829.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at Wigmore Hall, London, in November 2021.

Composer Biography

Johann Mayrhofer, the poet of 'Einsamkeit', was Schubert's most important cultural mentor, nine years his senior, with interests in philosophy, literature, and the Classical world.