One would have thought that at some point Graham Johnson would simply have run out of great Schubert songs in compiling his Schubert edition. And one would have been wrong: even here at volume 35 in a program with the unwieldy title of Schubert, 1822 -- 1825, Johnson has seemingly saved some of the best for nearly the end. But what else could a disc be called when it includes three of Schubert's most sublime songs, his Rückert settings in such exquisite performances as Philip Langridge's delicate but divine Dass sie hier ...
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One would have thought that at some point Graham Johnson would simply have run out of great Schubert songs in compiling his Schubert edition. And one would have been wrong: even here at volume 35 in a program with the unwieldy title of Schubert, 1822 -- 1825, Johnson has seemingly saved some of the best for nearly the end. But what else could a disc be called when it includes three of Schubert's most sublime songs, his Rückert settings in such exquisite performances as Philip Langridge's delicate but divine Dass sie hier gewesen! (D. 775), Geraldine McGreevy's lightly laughing Lachen und Weinen (D. 777), Neal Davies' ruggedly sensitive Greisengesang (D 778), or Lynne Dawson's rapturously ecstatic Du bist die Ruh (D. 776)? What else could a disc be called when it includes Schubert's pantheist hymn Gott in der Natur (D. 757) sung by the heavenly voices of Lorna Anderson, Patricia Rozario, Lynne Dawson, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers? Or a disc with the ghostly Schwestergruss (D. 762), with its haunting echoes...
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