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Schubert: Die Liebe Liebt Das Wandern - Biography
BR Klassik

Schubert: Die Liebe Liebt Das Wandern - Biography

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Composer
SCHUBERT, FRANZ
Artist
Stadlober, Wachtveitl, Blomstedt
Format
CD
Label
BR Klassik
Released
Jan 08, 2021
Catalog #
BRK900927
UPC
4035719009279

About

Admittedly, Franz Schubert's biography offers little in the way of great adventures, love affairs, glamour and long journeys. Jörg Handstein – in what is now his tenth audio biography in the successful BR-KLASSIK series - devotes himself here to a composer with an altogether quieter life. Schubert's story still remains an exciting one: no famous composer before him had ever chosen to lead a life in which his musical activities were supported solely by a private circle of friends. This did not succeed without resistance, setbacks, great disappointments and personal tragedies. Schubert's unhappiness in love, his terrible illness, and probably also his early death were, ultimately, the price he paid for this unconventional life. He bravely stood his ground, however, countering an age of cultural and political paralysis with his great and bold art. In this audio biography, Schubert’s creative path can be followed in around 130 musical examples – something impossible in any biography in book form. Alongside Udo Wachtveitl (narrator) and Robert Stadlober (Schubert), many other voices bring the composer’s world and his circle of friends to life. Schubert’s conventional image is encumbered by two clichés. On the one hand, we have the warm-hearted, sentimental man, known to his friends familiarly as Schwammerl (“mushroom”), churning out endless songs and beautiful melodies, and on the other, the incessantly tortured outsider, with music primarily conveying a sense of “brokenness” and “alienation”. This audio biography allows Schubert to speak for himself as often as possible. Despite the sparse documentation, a far more nuanced picture emerges – and the well-known Austrian actor and rock musician Robert Stadlober finds richly contrasting colors for it. We discover a different Schubert here: single-minded, argumentative, philosophical, reflective, and with a wide range of interests. That is also what makes his life story so exciting.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Chapter 1: Lebenstraum (1797-1813) 26:42
    Track
    1
    Title
    Chapter 1: Lebenstraum (1797-1813)
    Duration
    26:42
  3. 2 Chapter 2: Liederjahre (1814-1816) 24:33
    Track
    2
    Title
    Chapter 2: Liederjahre (1814-1816)
    Duration
    24:33
  4. 3 Chapter 3: Jetzt lebe ich einmal! (1817-1818) 24:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    Chapter 3: Jetzt lebe ich einmal! (1817-1818)
    Duration
    24:33
  5. Disc 2
  6. 1 Chapter 4: Störrisches Benehmen (1818-1820) 25:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    Chapter 4: Störrisches Benehmen (1818-1820)
    Duration
    25:10
  7. 2 Chapter 5: Die Straße zum Erfolg (1820-1822) 24:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    Chapter 5: Die Straße zum Erfolg (1820-1822)
    Duration
    24:08
  8. 3 Chapter 6: Die Sonne dünkt mich hier so kalt (1822-1823) 24:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    Chapter 6: Die Sonne dünkt mich hier so kalt (1822-1823)
    Duration
    24:36
  9. Disc 3
  10. 1 Chapter 7: Sommerreise (1823-1825) 24:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    Chapter 7: Sommerreise (1823-1825)
    Duration
    24:49
  11. 2 Chapter 8: Nun weiter denn, nur weiter! (1826-1827) 25:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    Chapter 8: Nun weiter denn, nur weiter! (1826-1827)
    Duration
    25:38
  12. 3 Chapter 9: Rauschender Beifall (1828) 26:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    Chapter 9: Rauschender Beifall (1828)
    Duration
    26:39
  13. Disc 4
  14. 1 I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo 15:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    15:34
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Herbert Blomstedt
  15. 2 II. Andante con moto 14:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    14:27
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Herbert Blomstedt
  16. 3 III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 14:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    14:43
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Herbert Blomstedt
  17. 4 IV. Allegro vivace 12:01
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    12:01
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Herbert Blomstedt