Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet / Hecker, Tetzlaff, Roberts, Helmchen, Prégardien, Tetzlaff, Donderer

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT MENDELSSOHN
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 10, 2021
    • UPC
      3760014197482
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA748
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 7. Abschied

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    2. No. 6. In der Ferne

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    3. No. 4. Standchen (Serenade)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    4. No. 3. Fruhlingssehnsucht

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    5. No. 2. Kriegers Ahnung

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    6. No. 1. Liebesbotschaft

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    7. No. 5. Aufenthalt

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    8. Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 2, Op. 30: No. 9 in E Major, Op. 30, No. 3, MWV U104

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Martin Helmchen

    9. Schwanengesang, D. 744, "Schwanenlied"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    10. No. 10. Das Fischermadchen

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    11. No. 12. Am Meer

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    12. No. 11. Die Stadt

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    13. No. 13. Der Doppelganger

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    14. No. 9. Ihr Bild

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    15. No. 8. Der Atlas

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    16. 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1. Schwanenlied

      Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel

      Performer: Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen

    17. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

    18. II. Adagio

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

    19. III. Scherzo: Presto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker

    20. IV. Allegretto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker


Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, somber and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl. In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major, scored for two cellos, which was not premiered until 1850, at the Vienna Musikverein. The power and orchestral dimensions of the work make it a pinnacle of nineteenth-century chamber music. We could not have dreamt of a finer line-up of musicians to record these two Schubert monuments. Fanny Mendelssohn's Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme, along with Felix Mendelssohn's Song Without Words no.1 for solo piano, composed a year after Schubert's death and Schubert's own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D 744, on a poem by Johann Senn).