| Contents |
Gute Nacht (5:50) -- Die Wetterfahne (1:54) -- Gefrorne Tränen (2:40) -- Erstarrung (3:04) -- Der Lindenbaum (5:22) -- Wasserflut (3:42) -- Auf dem Flusse (3:50) -- Rückblick (2:14) -- Irrlicht (2:26) -- Rast (3:31) -- Frühlingstraum (4:32) -- Einsamkeit (2:52) -- Die Post (2:17) -- Der greise Kopf (3:06) -- Die Krähe (2:05) -- Letzte Hoffnung (2:22) -- Im Dorfe (3:34) -- Der stürmische Morgen (:53) -- Täuschung (1:16) -- Der Wegweiser (4:24) -- Das Wirtshaus (4:24) -- Mut! (1:28) -- Die Nebensonnen (3:03) -- Der Leiermann (3:44). |
| Abstract |
The Gramophone Award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake turns to perhaps the most celebrated song-cycle of them all. Here is a masterpiece of despair, astonishing in its bleakness and enthrallingly mesmerizing as the journey continues. It is the second of Schubert's two great song cycles on William Muller's poems, the earlier being Die schone Mullerin. The work's tone echoes the composer's own mood, as it was written during a particularly melancholic period in Schubert's life. |
| General note | Song cycle; "D911"--Container. |
| General note | Set to poems by Wilhelm Müller. |
| General note | Compact disc. |
| General note | Program notes by Richard Wigmore and biographical notes on the performers in English and texts in German with English translations (19 p. : ports.) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Gerald Finley, baritone ; Julius Drake, piano. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Feb. 26-28, 2013 in All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London. |
| Language | Sung in German. |
| Genre/form | Musical settings. |
| UPC |
034571280349 |
| Publisher number | CDA68034 Hyperion |
| Publisher number | 68034 Hyperion |
