Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Christoph Prégardien, Andreas Staier
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Challenge Classics
Catalogue: CC72302
Release: 2008
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Herbst, D945
Schwanengesang No. 1-7, D. 957
02. Liebesbotschaft
03. Kriegers Ahnung
04. Frühlingssehnsucht
05. Ständchen
06. Aufenthalt
07. In der Ferne
08. Abschied
Schwanengesang No. 8-13, D. 957
09. Der Atlas
10. Ihr Bild
11. Das Fischermädchen
12. Die Stadt
13. Am Meer
14. Der Doppelgänger
Die Taubenpost, D965A (D957 No. 14)
15. Sehnsucht D879
16. Am Fenster, D878
17. Bei dir allein, D866 / 2
18. Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 (Seidl)
19. Das Zugenglocklein D871 (Seidl)
20. Im Freien D880
The eminent lyric tenor Christoph Prégardien is represented on disc with more than a hundred and twenty titles. His recordings of the German Romantic Lied repertoire have been highly acclaimed by public and press alike and have received many major international awards. He recently began a new long-term collaboration with Challenge Classics, the first fruit of which was a recording of Schubert’s “Schöne Müllerin” with pianist Michel Gees, (CC72292).
On this recording of another of Schubert’s great lieder cycles, “Schwanengesang”, he is joined by the highly-regarded pianist Andreas Staier.
Written in August 1828 shortly before his death, the 14 songs by Franz Schubert given the collective title of “Schwanengesang” by his publisher Tobias Haslinger are in reality made up of two sets. There are seven songs on texts by Ludwig Rellstab and six on texts by Heinrich Heine in a common manuscript along with a single Lied, Die Taubenpost, on a poem by his friend Gabriel Seidl (D 965 A). Die Taubenpost is perhaps Schubert’s last song, possibly even his last complete composition of all, although Der Hirt auf dem Felsen was apparently also written in October 1828. The Viennese poet Gabriel Seidl was the source of a whole series of poetic texts that Schubert set to music between 1826 and 1828. Some of these were solo lieder and some were polyphonic songs.