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557172bk USA 15/6/04 10:52 am Page 24 Also available on Naxos: Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 8 DEUTSCHE Schiller-Lieder, Vol. 2 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 1 Die Bürgschaft • Gruppe aus dem Tartarus a.o. SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION • 17 Winterreise Regina Jakobi, Mezzo-soprano Roman Trekel, Baritone Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554741 Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554471 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 9 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 2 Schubert’s Friends, Vol. 1 SCHUBERT Schwanengesang • Auf dem Strom • Herbst Schatzgräbers Begehr • Jägers Liebeslied a.o. Lebensmut • Lieder on texts by Ludwig Rellstab Markus Eiche, Baritone / Jens Fuhr, Piano. 8.554799 Michael Volle, Baritone / Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Sjön Scott, Horn. 8.554663 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 10 Austrian Contemporaries Vol. 2 Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 1 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 3 Drang in die Ferne • Die Sterne • Am Fenster a.o. Detlef Roth, Baritone Goethe-Lieder, Vol. 1 Christoph Genz, Tenor An den Mond • Der Fischer • Ganymed • Meeres Stille Wolfram Rieger, Piano. .8.554796 Prometheus • Wandrers Nachtlied I & II a.o. Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Ulf Bästlein, Baritone / Stefan Laux, Piano. .8.554665 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 11 North German Poets Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 4 Auf der Bruck • Im Frühling • Der Wanderer a.o. Mayrhofer-Lieder, Vol. 1 Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Bass-Baritone Der Alpenjäger • An die Freunde • Auf der Donau Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.555780 Aus “Heliopolis” I & II • Der Hirt a.o. Cornelius Hauptmann, Bass Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 12 Stefan Laux, Piano. .8.554738 Mayrhofer-Lieder, Vol. 2 Erlafsee • Uraniens Flucht • Auflösung a.o. Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 5 Christiane Iven, Mezzo-Soprano Die schöne Müllerin Burkhard Kehring, Piano . 8.554739 Christian Elsner, Tenor Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.554664 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 13 Goethe Lieder, Vol. 2 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 6 Lieder der Mignon • Gretchen-Lieder • Suleika I,II a.o. Schiller-Lieder, Vol. 1 Ruth Ziesak, Soprano • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Der Alpenjäger • Der Kampf • Der Taucher a.o. Christian Elsner, Tenor. 8.554666 Martin Bruns, Baritone Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.554740 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 14 European Poets, Vol. 2 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 7 Edward • An Silvia • Vedi quanto adoro European Poets, Vol. 1 Petrarca-Sonette a.o. Ellens Gesänge • Lied des gefangenen Jägers, Maya Boog, Soprano / W. M. Friedrich, Bass-Baritone Normans Gesang • Lodas Gespenst a.o Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.557026-27 Ruth Ziesak, Soprano / Roman Trekel, Baritone Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554795 Further volumes are listed on www.naxos.com 8.557172 24 557172bk USA 15/6/04 10:52 am Page 2 Dann glänzt das Leben heiter, Life looks cheerful, Mild lächelt jeder Schmerz, Smiles gently at every pain, Die Freude hält umfangen Joy is held confined Das ruhige, klare Herz. In the quiet clear heart. THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs ¡ Die Fröhlichkeit Joyfulness , D262 (1815) which he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Martin Joseph Prandstetter (1760-1798) Martin Joseph Prandstetter (1760-1798) Schubert’s) luck in a letter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, Johann Wolfgang von D262 (1815), veröffentlicht 1895 published 1895 Goethe: A selection of German songs will constitute the beginning of this edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The Wess’ Adern leichtes Blut durchspringt, He in whose veins blood runs lightly first two (the first of which, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poems written by your Der ist ein reicher Mann; Is a rich man; Excellency, the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Hölty, Auch keine goldnen Ketten zwingt Also with no gold chains Salis etc., the seventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional. Ihm Furcht und Hoffnung an. Do fear and hope hold him. The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer’s original concept. All Schubert’s Lieder, over 700 songs, will be grouped according to the poets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers, Wohin sein muntrer Blick sich kehrt, Wherever his cheerful gaze turns contemporaries, members of certain literary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose to set to Ist alles schön und gut, All is fair and good, music. Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length and quality make them worth recording, and Ist alles heil und liebenswert, All is hale and lovable, works for two or more voices with piano accompaniment will also make up a part of the edition. Und fröhlich wie sein Mut. And joyful as his mood. Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, his Denn Fröhlichkeit geleitet ihn Then Joyfulness leads him contemporaries, and, of course, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, although sadly the two never met. Bis an ein sanftes Grab To a gentle grave The entire edition is scheduled for completion by 2006. Thanks to the Neue Schubert Ausgabe (New Schubert Wohl durch ein langes Leben hin Through a long life Edition), published by Bärenreiter, which uses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible - the An ihrem Zauberstab. With its magic wand. performers have been able to benefit from the most recent research of the editorial team. For the first time, the listener and the interested reader can follow Schubert’s textual alterations and can appreciate the importance the Das Originalgedicht hat zwölf Strophen The original poem has twelve verses. written word had for the composer. The project’s Artistic Advisor is the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers English versions by Keith Anderson who represent the élite of today’s young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution, he believes, will stand the test of time. 8.557172 2 23 8.557172 557172bk USA 15/6/04 10:52 am Page 22 Getäuschtes Paris! Paris is overthrown! Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Der schmeichelnde Wahn ist verflogen; Her flattering delusion is gone; Settings of Poems by Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 2 Die Väter der Teutschen, den Cäsar des Nordens The fathers of the Germans, the Caesar of the North Empörten die Gräuel des Raubens und Mordens. Were angered by the horrors of rapine and murder. In May 1821 Schubert received a letter from Johann people with all their possibilities and vicissitudes). This Der Edlen Verheißung - sie hat nicht betrogen; The promise of the nobles they did not betray; Ladislav Pyrker, the Patriarch of Venice: ‘Honoured may explain the passionate engagement, the almost Sie sind in Paris! They are in Paris! Sir, I accept with the greater pleasure your proposal to overheated intensity of both songs. The personal gift of Nun ist uns der Friede gewiß! Now peace for us is certain! dedicate to me the fourth volume of your incomparable the poems by Pyrker may also have played a part, since songs, in that there often now return memories of that they both seem to have held each other in high esteem. Befreites Paris! Paris is liberated! evening when I was so moved by the profundity of your A further circumstance could similarly have Aus dir floß die Lava der Kriege; From you flowed the lava of war; mind, also explicitly expressed in the music of your brought about the particular strength of feeling of Das In dir sprießt die Palme, sie haben’s verheißen, In you grows the palm that they have promised, Wanderer …’. Ladislav Pyrker, born in 1773, had an Heimweh. The idea of longing is actually central to Die Väter von Östreich, von Rußland, von Preußen, The fathers of Austria, of Russia, of Prussia, important career in the Church, as Abbot and then Schubert’s songs, yet this longing is almost always Die liebliche Frucht ihrer glänzenden Siege The lovely fruit of your brilliant triumph Archbishop. Throughout his life he was socially directed towards an ideal ‘milderes Land’ (gentler Ist Friede gewiß! Is certain peace! engaged. In Karlsruhe and Gastein he founded, during country), as Mayrhofer expressed it, a ‘bessre Welt’ Sie senden ihn bald aus Paris. They send it soon from Paris. the war with France, sanatoria for the war wounded, (better world) in the words of Schober, a goal beyond, and he wrote poetry. He appears at two important points unattainable on earth. Here, though, it is concrete, in Das Originalgedicht hat acht Strophen The original poem has eight verses in Schubert’s artistic development. The two first met in this world, and precisely related to the mountains that 1820 through their common friend Matthäus von so deeply influenced Schubert, a citizen of Vienna. ) Abschied (Melodram) Farewell (Melodrama), D829 (1826) Collin. The Opus 4 then dedicated to him by Schubert Accordingly his music is direct, robust, concise and Adolf von Pratobevera (1806-1875) Adolf von Pratobevera (1806-1875) included the aforementioned famous Wanderer, really tightly constructed, filled with harmonic colours, aus der dramatischen Dichtung “Der Falke” from the dramatic poem ‘The Falcon’ central for Schubert’s creative career, a setting of verse melodic Alpine yodelling turns of phrase in his D829 (1826), veröffentlicht 1873 published 1873 by Schmidt von Lübeck (Deutsche Schubert-Lied- conception of the longed for land, but also deeply sad, Edition 11, North German Poets). In 1825 they depressive and of high dramatic intensity in its Leb’ wohl, du schöne Erde! Farewell, fair earth! probably met again, when Schubert, with the famous depiction of the pain of parting.