Graham Johnson's idea of dedicating Vol. 2 of his Schubert edition to songs about water was, as they say, a natural. In all of Schubert's songs, water ranks below only flowers as a source of inspiration and he wrote some of the most delightful, the most awe-inspiring, the most suicidal songs as water songs. And although the volume of course does not include any of Schubert's most suicidal water songs from Die schöne Müllerin, it does include what is perhaps his most despairing song, Fahrt zum Hades (D. 526), along with many ...
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Graham Johnson's idea of dedicating Vol. 2 of his Schubert edition to songs about water was, as they say, a natural. In all of Schubert's songs, water ranks below only flowers as a source of inspiration and he wrote some of the most delightful, the most awe-inspiring, the most suicidal songs as water songs. And although the volume of course does not include any of Schubert's most suicidal water songs from Die schöne Müllerin, it does include what is perhaps his most despairing song, Fahrt zum Hades (D. 526), along with many of his more typically cheerful water songs. Stephen Varcoe doesn't have the strongest or the deepest of baritones, but he more than compensates with his clarity and subtlety. In simple songs like the two settings of Fischerlied (D. 351 and D. 562), he makes the happiness of the music infectious. In more complex songs like Am Bach im Fruhling (D. 361) and Widerschein (D. 639), he makes the depths of the songs pellucid. In despairing songs like Der Storm (D. 565) and Fahrt zum Hades,...
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