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

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Composer
SCHUBERT MENDELSSOHN
Artist
Various
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Sep 10, 2021
Catalog #
ALPHA748
UPC
3760014197482

About

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).

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 No. 7. Abschied 04:11
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 7. Abschied
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  3. 2 No. 6. In der Ferne 07:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 6. In der Ferne
    Duration
    07:25
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  4. 3 No. 4. Standchen (Serenade) 03:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 4. Standchen (Serenade)
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  5. 4 No. 3. Fruhlingssehnsucht 03:45
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Fruhlingssehnsucht
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  6. 5 No. 2. Kriegers Ahnung 05:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Kriegers Ahnung
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  7. 6 No. 1. Liebesbotschaft 03:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Liebesbotschaft
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  8. 7 No. 5. Aufenthalt 03:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 5. Aufenthalt
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  9. 8 Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 2, Op. 30: No. 9 in E Major, Op. 30, No. 3, MWV U104 02:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 2, Op. 30: No. 9 in E Major, Op. 30, No. 3, MWV U104
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performer
    Martin Helmchen
  10. 9 Schwanengesang, D. 744, "Schwanenlied" 03:23
    Track
    9
    Title
    Schwanengesang, D. 744, "Schwanenlied"
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  11. 10 No. 10. Das Fischermadchen 02:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Das Fischermadchen
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  12. 11 No. 12. Am Meer 05:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 12. Am Meer
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  13. 12 No. 11. Die Stadt 03:01
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 11. Die Stadt
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  14. 13 No. 13. Der Doppelganger 04:54
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Der Doppelganger
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  15. 14 No. 9. Ihr Bild 03:16
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 9. Ihr Bild
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  16. 15 No. 8. Der Atlas 02:32
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 8. Der Atlas
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  17. 16 6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1. Schwanenlied 03:28
    Track
    16
    Title
    6 Lieder, Op. 1: No. 1. Schwanenlied
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
    Performer
    Julian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen
  18. Disc 2
  19. 1 I. Allegro ma non troppo 19:19
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    19:19
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
  20. 2 II. Adagio 13:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    13:47
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
  21. 3 III. Scherzo: Presto 09:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Presto
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
  22. 4 IV. Allegretto 09:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegretto
    Duration
    09:09
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker