Schubert: Nachtgesang
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Nachtgesang
RIAS Kammerchor, Martin Creed, with Birgit Remmert & Werner Gura
[ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 7 July 2017
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Whether it be cheerful, melancholy, amorous or piously contemplative, the night - a favorite source of romantic inspiration if ever there was one - is the unbroken thread running throughout this recording on which we will find monumental pieces like the Gesang der Geister uber dem Wasser side by side with more descriptive pieces like Der Gondelfahrer. The composer of an abundant body of chorale music, Schubert is here in his element, and yet, it is astonishing how little importance he attached to these masterly pieces! Their stunning beauty reveals that they are in no way inferior to the finest of his solo songs.
Philip Mayers plays a fortepiano by Johann Fritz, Vienna, 1825.
"Marcus Creed and his RIAS-Kammerchor present a variety of Schubert's choral songs here, all around the central theme of night--the source of some of Schubert's greatest inspirations. They range from hushed, shimmering evocations of moonlight to dark hymns of death-as-life's-night. The choral ensemble is excellent throughout, with a pure and lovely tone when unaccompanied. Philip Mayers' period fortepiano lends an atmospheric air in the songs with piano, as do the Scharoun Ensemble's horns and strings.
Despite strong competition in some of this repertoire from Robert Shaw and his Chamber Singers on Telarc, the Berlin-based ensembles here capture the essence of the material to great effect, making this a program not to be missed" ArkivMusic
Tracks:
Nachtgesang im Walde, D913
Grab und Mond, D893
Der Gondelfahrer, D809
Psalm 23 'Gott ist mein Hirt', D706
Im Gegenwärtigen Vergangenes, D710
Coronach, D836
Nachthelle, D892 (Seidl)
Die Nacht, D983c
Ständchen 'Zögernd leise', D920/921
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D714
Gott im Ungewitter, D985
