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572322 bk Schubert US 31/12/09 20:54 Page 12 DEUTSCHE Also available: SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION • 35 SCHUBERT Rarities, Fragments, and Alternative Versions Rubens • Roth • Grosgurin • Jungwirth • Kuppel • Riehm Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano 8.570961 8.570962 8.572110 A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk 8.572322 12 572322 bk Schubert US 31/12/09 20:54 Page 2 Franz Peter Ulrich Eisenlohr SCHUBERT Ulrich Eisenlohr studied at the conservatory of music in Heidelberg/Mannheim (1797-1828) (Rolf Hartmann, piano) and Lieder under Konrad Richter at Stuttgart. Specialising in the areas of song accompaniment and chamber music, he began Rarities, Fragments, and Alternative Versions an extensive concert career with numerous instrumental and vocal partners in Europe, America and Japan, with appearances at the Vienna Musikverein and 1 Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, Das Mädchen aus der Fremde, D. 117 (Schiller) 2:40 the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the 2 Laura am Klavier, 1st version, D. 388 (Schiller) 4:51 Edinburgh Festival, Frankfurt Festival, International Beethoven Festival Bonn Photo: Wolfgang Detering and the Ludwigsburg Festival, among many others. He has collaborated with a 3 Entzückung an Laura, 2nd setting, D. 577 (Schiller)* 3:59 number of leading singers in Lieder recitals and has also appeared in numerous 4 Gesang in C / Song sketch, D. 1a (no text) 11:49 broadcasts, live concert recordings and television transmissions, as well as in recordings for leading record companies, several of which have been awarded 5 Zur Namensfeier des Herrn Andreas Siller, D. 83 (Anon.) 1:19 major prizes, including the German Record Critics’ Quarterly Award, a Grand 6 Auf den Sieg der Deutschen, D. 81 (Anon.) 4:02 Prix International from the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and the Classical Internet Award. The conception and recording of all Schubert songs for 7 Lebenstraum / Ich saß an einer Tempelhalle, D. 39 Naxos is now an important focus of his artistic work. The series will be finished (Gabriele von Baumberg)* 9:37 in 2009. The recording of Hugo Wolf’s complete songs is planned for the near future. Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the conservatories of music in 8 Lied eines Kindes, D. 596 (Anon.) 1:04 Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and has conducted master-classes in Lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan. He has 9 Bei dem Grabe meines Vaters, D. 496 (Matthias Claudius) 3:04 served as accompanist for master-classes with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro (Juilliard School, New York) and Geoffrey Parsons. Since 1982 he has taught a Lieder class at the Mannheim Conservatory 0 Der Knabe in der Wiege, 2nd version, D. 579 of Music. (Anton Ottenwald) (Incomplete) 1:31 ! Nur wer die Liebe kennt, D. 513a (Werner)* 1:19 @ Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, 1st setting, D. 396 (Schiller) (Incomplete) 0:46 # So laßt mich scheinen, 1st setting, D. 469 (Goethe) (Incomplete) 1:09 $ Liedentwurf in A / Song Sketch in A minor, D. 555 (no text) (Incomplete) 0:51 % Das große Halleluja, D. 442 (Klopstock) 2:31 ^ Evangelium Johannis, Cap. 6, 55-58, D. 607* 3:00 & Schlachtgesang, D. 443 (Klopstock) 2:48 * Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, 1st setting, D. 484 (Goethe)* 5:52 * Fragments completed by Peter Reinhard van Hoorickx 8.572322 2 11 8.572322 572322 bk Schubert US 31/12/09 20:54 Page 10 Reto Kuppel THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION Reto Kuppel studied at the Music Academy in Hamburg with Andreas Röhn and In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which attended master-classes with the Amadeus Quartet, Ralf Gothoni, Herman Krebbers he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert’s) and Zakhar Bron. Further studies took him to the Juilliard School of Music in New luck in a letter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: York, where he was taught by Dorothy DeLay. He won the Hamburg Academy A selection of German songs will constitute the beginning of this edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The Competition and the International Violin Competition in Château de Courcillon and first two (the first of which, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poems written by your Excellency, then appeared in several European countries and the United States as a soloist with the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Hölty, Salis etc., the renowned orchestras. He was also introduced to a wider audience through radio and seventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional. television broadcasts. Since 1997 he has been associate concert-master in the Bavarian The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer’s original concept. All Schubert’s Lieder, over 700 Radio Symphony Orchestra. Besides a number of solo and chamber music appearances, songs, will be grouped according to the poets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers, he has also taught since 2006 at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar as well as contemporaries, members of certain literary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose to set to music. giving master-classes at home and abroad. Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length and quality make them worth recording, and works for two or more voices with piano accompaniment will also make up a part of the edition. 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 contemporaries, and, of course, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, although sadly the two never met. The entire edition is scheduled for completion by 2010. Thanks to the Neue Schubert Ausgabe (New Schubert Edition), published by Bärenreiter, which uses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible - the Peter Riehm 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 Peter Riehm took his first violin lessons at the age of five. He won a number of prizes at written word had for the composer. the Jugend musiziert competition and was a preparatory student of Lukas David at the The project’s Artistic Advisor is the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers North German Music Academy in Detmold for twelve years. Three years later he who represent the élite of today’s young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution, he continued his studies with Tibor Varga, in whose chamber orchestra he took part for believes, will stand the test of time. many years as concert-master. In 1986 Peter Riehm was engaged as a first violinist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and since 1995 he has been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Photo: Private 8.572322 10 3 8.572322 572322 bk Schubert US 31/12/09 20:54 Page 4 Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Daniel Grosgurin Rarities, Fragments, and Alternative Versions The cellist Daniel Grosgurin was born in Geneva and received his first musical training This last instalment of our complete recording of varied strophic form. In the second version D. 252 at the Conservatory of Music there, before studying with János Starker at the Schubert’s songs contains two which Schubert intended (Schiller-Lieder Vol. 2), written nine months later, one University of Indiana and in Geneva with Pierre Fournier. He won prizes at the to be accompanied by instruments other than the piano, can hear no trace of any stylistic development when international Geneva and Cassado Competitions, and after his début at the Wigmore and fragments and drafts for songs which are compared with the earlier one; on the contrary Schubert Hall in London in 1976 began performing as a soloist with various well known sometimes heard exactly as they have come down to us seems to have been so affected by Schiller’s poetic orchestras in Europe and America. He has performed with some of the best known and at other times in subsequent completions. Many of parable of the girl, who comes to mankind from pianists and violinists of his generation, and has been invited to Europe’s most these fragments were left uncompleted by Schubert and unknown regions, from “another sunlight”, endowed prestigious Festivals, as well as being a frequent guest of the American Eastern Music in other cases parts of the autograph manuscript are with her gifts from “a happier nature”, that he wrote Festival. From 1995 to 2005 he was Music Director of Les Solistes de Genève, and missing so that one can only speculate how they would two quite different settings of equal value but of a from 2006 to 2008 he was a member of the Beethoven Quartet. In 1978 he was have continued. Also included are some alternative similarly simple beauty. appointed Professor at the Mannheim Musikhochschule and since 1990 he has taught versions and arrangements of previously recorded Schiller’s poem Laura am Klavier 2 (Laura at the exclusively at the Geneva Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique, giving master-classes songs which are worth hearing, two drafts for songs Piano) posed Schubert a difficult compositional task: he at various institutions in Europe, the United States and Japan. His recordings include a which have survived without texts, and compositions had to make audible simultaneously both Laura’s release devoted to the music of the Spanish cellist-composer Gaspar Cassadó and an which fall between song and other genres (sacred songs marvellous piano playing, praying “for life and death”, album under the title Violoncelle & Opéra.