These are all early Schubert songs, and few of them are very known; one, Die Mainacht, is sometimes performed along with a Brahms setting of the same poem by Ludwig Hölty. Fortepianist and liner note writer Ulrich Eisenlohr tries to claim that in these songs Schubert "developed the technical command that gave him assurance in his decisive steps toward...revolutionary songwriting," which seems hard to accept inasmuch as Schubert was writing revolutionary Goethe settings like Gretchen am Spinnrade at around the same time as ...
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These are all early Schubert songs, and few of them are very known; one, Die Mainacht, is sometimes performed along with a Brahms setting of the same poem by Ludwig Hölty. Fortepianist and liner note writer Ulrich Eisenlohr tries to claim that in these songs Schubert "developed the technical command that gave him assurance in his decisive steps toward...revolutionary songwriting," which seems hard to accept inasmuch as Schubert was writing revolutionary Goethe settings like Gretchen am Spinnrade at around the same time as these songs. The music on this disc is better appreciated on its own terms; most of the songs are strophic, and there are various examples of Schubert's way of using very small musical gestures to add psychological depth to a strophic setting -- depth that sometimes exceeds what's found in the original poem. There are a few unusual items here, none more so than Klage um Ali Bey, a comic song with an Arabic setting.Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and soprano Birgid Steinberger aren't...
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