Schwanengesang
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SCHUBERT
Schwanengesang
Florian Boesch (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
[ Onyx / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2014
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To complete their survey of the Schubert Song Cycles, Boesch & Martineau arrive at Schwanengesang, the set of 13 songs composed in 1828. These are masterly settings of Rellstab and Heine, and finds Schubert at the very peak of his lieder-composing prowess. An additional song 'Die Taubenpost' D956a to words by Seidl was included by the publisher but this recording excludes the song. It does however include five Goethe settings dating from 1815 - 1821. Florian Boesch is in glorious voice, often almost introverted and intimate, but gloriously even throughout his range.
"Boesch is a wonderful Schubert singer...the range of his full, rounded bass-baritone voice, always in tune, is remarkable." (International Record Review, May 2015)
"[Boesch] has a very wide dynamic range at his disposal which he controls expertly while his palette of vocal colouring is wide ranging and applied with perception. Clearly he has established a formidable partnership with Malcolm Martineau...Here is an extremely accomplished and perceptive Schubertian." (MusicWeb International, January 2015)
Tracks:
Schwanengesang, D957
Harfenspieler I D325 (Goethe)
Harfenspieler III 'Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass', D480
Harfenspieler II 'An die Türen will ich schleichen, D479
Grenzen der Menschheit, D716
Prometheus, D674 (Goethe)
