12/11/2023 0 Comments Specialty of franz schubert clue![]() They will include material from three sources: first, songs specially recorded by artists who have already taken part and who return to the microphone in the spirit of a farewell party as the series comes to its end secondly, the contribution of a handful of singers too young to have participated earlier in the series but whose presence here is a signpost to the future of British lieder singing and thirdly, the issue of material held back from previous issues (in some cases for a number of years) precisely for the purpose of a later appearance at this stage of the series. Of these, Volumes 36 and 37 will have small solo casts of three singers each, whereas Volumes 33 to 35 will (like Vol 32) feature a larger number of singers drawn from the history of the Schubert Edition. In addition to the present disc five further volumes, Schubertiads of different sizes, are projected to complete the series. At the core of the series there have been themed discs which have roamed across the whole range of Schubert’s lieder these have been a crucial, and regular, counterbalance to the chronological surveys which have been geared to give some sense of Schubert’s development as a composer. But for reasons of marketability this would have been disastrous, as well as boring for the consumer who would have had to wait too long to hear songs typical of Schubert at his greatest. It might have been possible to plan a chronological survey, placing all the songs of the early years together, and leaving the masterpieces to the end. From the beginning, this mixed approach seemed to be the only way to go forward. ![]() At the time of writing, all the material will be, at last, ‘in the can’ and scheduled for issue over the next eighteen months or so.Įach of the volumes in the series has had a raison d’être-either thematic or chronological. For the listener, impatient to complete his collection of Schubert songs, the good news is that the end is in now sight. These factors, as well as the inevitable timetable difficulties in pinning down international artists to recording sessions, have made our task more protracted than we first thought. The quiet concentration needed for this work is not to be found amidst the tense exigencies of concert life. The preparation of these notes has been a constant task in my life for more than a decade and, at times, my obligations as a performing artist have impeded my productivity as a writer. ![]() The documentation accompanying the series-much of it now available on the internet-required more tome- and time-consuming diligence than is normally associated with the post-production process of song-recital records and it can only be written after editing is complete and the programme order determined. This makes the Schubert Edition the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of this composer’s piano-accompanied vocal music. Since those early days we have broadened the scope of The Hyperion Schubert Edition to include all the part-songs with piano, a number of the unaccompanied choral works that are relevant to the main body of the lieder, and the considerable number of fragments that throw further light on Schubert’s output but which have hitherto been largely excluded from the recording studio. Our initial aim to complete the series in time for the composer’s bicentenary in 1997 proved rather more ambitious than we realized at the time. ![]() This CD marks the beginning of the last lap of the project initiated some ten years ago with a disc of Schubert lieder sung by Dame Janet Baker.
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