Schubert: Nachtgesang

Creed, Marcus, Güra, Werner, RIAS Kammerchor

HMC 901669

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This is a beautiful, heartwarming record. Schubert's part-songs, originally written for friendly gatherings at home, have never received the recognition they deserve, perhaps partly because he himself underrated them. Yet their extraordinary variety of mood, character, and texture, (often within a single song) and the inspired melodies, harmonic surprises, and magical modulations, are vintage Schubert. This selection focuses on "night" both literally and symbolically; it is imaginatively arranged to contrast strophic and through-composed songs; settings for male, female, and combined voices, sometimes imitating or echoing a solo voice; and songs with and without instrumental accompaniment. The music is by turns simple, cheerful, mysterious, somber, serenely luminous, and almost operatically dramatic. There is a gently parodistic Serenade, sung by women, and a devout biblical Psalm; the two best poems are by Goethe. The performances are wonderful, pristine in sound yet deeply expressive; the alto and tenor solos are ravishing. • Edith Eisleralign

Works:

• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D913 Nachtgesang im Walde
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D893 Grab und Mond
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D809 Der Gondelfabrer
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D706
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D710 lm Gegenwigen Vergangenes
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.836 Coronach
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.892 Nachtelle
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.983c Die Nacht
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.920 Standchen
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.714 Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern
• Franz Schubert: Nachtgesang: D.985 Gott im Ungewitter

CD x 1

Harmonia Mundi

1.03.1999

794881463725