As great as some of the earlier volumes in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition had been, none of them match singer with repertoire so successfully as this volume. But when it came time to do a set of Schubert songs on death, who else could Johnson have chosen as the singer except mezzo soprano Brigitte Fassbaender? What other singer is so expressive, so intense, so fearless in taking a song right to the edge of terror and then jumping into the abyss without a backwards glance like Fassbaender? And what other composer treated ...
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As great as some of the earlier volumes in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition had been, none of them match singer with repertoire so successfully as this volume. But when it came time to do a set of Schubert songs on death, who else could Johnson have chosen as the singer except mezzo soprano Brigitte Fassbaender? What other singer is so expressive, so intense, so fearless in taking a song right to the edge of terror and then jumping into the abyss without a backwards glance like Fassbaender? And what other composer treated death with such fearlessness, such passionate intensity, and -- most importantly -- such overwhelming humanity as Schubert? From the frightful death of Der Tod und das Mädchen (D. 531) through the gentler death of Nachstück (D. 672) and the transcendent death of Das Zügenglöcklein (D. 871) to the ethereal afterlife of Seligkeit (D. 433), Fassbaender is in her element. In the ecstatic death of Auflösung (D. 807), in the spook show death of Der Geistertanz (D. 116), and in the ghostly...
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