This entry in Naxos' Deutsche-Schubert-Lied edition is a novel idea; gathering the various settings Schubert made of minor Sturm und Drang writers. In this case, "minor" means poets like Johann Gottfried Herder, Ossian (a non-person, an alleged ancient that was the alter ego of Scots poet James Macpherson), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and the like rather than the leading light of the movement, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose Schubert lieder have been collected numerous times in other packages. This disc contains what ...
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This entry in Naxos' Deutsche-Schubert-Lied edition is a novel idea; gathering the various settings Schubert made of minor Sturm und Drang writers. In this case, "minor" means poets like Johann Gottfried Herder, Ossian (a non-person, an alleged ancient that was the alter ego of Scots poet James Macpherson), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and the like rather than the leading light of the movement, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose Schubert lieder have been collected numerous times in other packages. This disc contains what Schubert's friends thought to be his earliest song, the massive lied Hagars Klage, D. 5 ("Hagar's Lament"); going to the first volume of the published Schubert lieder edition one encounters it very early, and as it goes on for page after page one wonders if there isn't some sort of printer's mistake. Lasting over 15 minutes, it's like a little opera and was written when Schubert was 14; usefully, the Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg work -- itself clocking in at 10 minutes -- on which Schubert...
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