557369-70 bk Schubert US 16/03/2005 10:14am Page 12 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 5 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 12 DEUTSCHE Die schöne Müllerin Mayrhofer-Lieder, Vol. 2 Christian Elsner, Tenor Erlafsee • Uraniens Flucht • Auflösung a.o. SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION • 18 Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.554664 Christiane Iven, Mezzo-Soprano Burkhard Kehring, Piano . 8.554739 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 6 Schiller-Lieder, Vol. 1 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 13 Der Alpenjäger • Der Kampf • Der Taucher a.o. Goethe Lieder, Vol. 2 SCHUBERT Martin Bruns, Baritone Lieder der Mignon • Gretchen-Lieder • Suleika I,II a.o. Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.554740 Ruth Ziesak, Soprano • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Christian Elsner, Tenor. 8.554666 Schiller-Lieder, Vols. 3 and 4 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 7 European Poets, Vol. 1 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 14 Maya Boog, Soprano • Lothar Odinius, Tenor Ellens Gesänge • Lied des gefangenen Jägers, European Poets, Vol. 2 Normans Gesang • Lodas Gespenst a.o Edward • An Silvia • Vedi quanto adoro Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Ruth Ziesak, Soprano / Roman Trekel, Baritone Petrarca-Sonette a.o. Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554795 Maya Boog, Soprano / W. M. Friedrich, Bass-Baritone Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. .8.557026-27 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 8 Schiller-Lieder, Vol. 2 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 15 Die Bürgschaft • Gruppe aus dem Tartarus a.o. Schubert's Friends Vol. 2 Regina Jakobi, Mezzo-soprano Nacht und Träume, Wehmut, Vergißmeinnicht a.o. Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554741 Brigitte Geller, Soprano Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.557171 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 9 Schubert’s Friends, Vol. 1 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 16 Schatzgräbers Begehr • Jägers Liebeslied a.o. Goethe Lieder Vol. 3 Markus Eiche, Baritone / Jens Fuhr, Piano. 8.554799 Erlkönig, Geheimes, Der Musensohn Johannes Kalpers, Tenor Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 10 Burkhard Kehring, Piano. .8.554667 Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 1 Drang in die Ferne • Die Sterne • Am Fenster a.o. Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 17 Christoph Genz, Tenor Austrian Contemporaries Vol. 2 Wolfram Rieger, Piano. 8.554796 Die Allmacht, Das Heimweh, Der Unglückliche Detlef Roth, Baritone Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 11 Ulrich Eisenlohr. .8.557172 North German Poets Auf der Bruck • Im Frühling • Der Wanderer a.o. Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Bass-Baritone Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano . .8.555780 2 CDs 8.557369-70 12 557369-70 bk Schubert US 16/03/2005 10:14am Page 2 Ulrich Eisenlohr THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION The pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr is the artistic director of the Naxos Deutsche Schubert In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which Lied Edition. He studied piano with Rolf Hartmann at the conservatory of music in he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert’s) Heidelberg/Mannheim and Lieder under Konrad Richter at Stuttgart. Specialising in luck in a letter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: the areas of song accompaniment and chamber music, he began an extensive concert A selection of German songs will constitute the beginning of this edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The career with numerous instrumental and vocal partners in Europe, America and Japan, first two (the first of which, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poems written by your Excellency, with appearances at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Hölty, Salis etc., the Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, seventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional. Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh Festival, the Frankfurt Festival, the The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer’s original concept. All Schubert’s Lieder, over 700 International Beethoven Festival Bonn and the Ludwigsburg Festival, among many songs, will be grouped according to the poets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers, others. His Lieder partners include Hans Peter Blochwitz, Christian Elsner, Matthias contemporaries, members of certain literary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose to set to music. Görne, Dietrich Henschel, Wolfgang Holzmair, Christoph Pregardien, Roman Trekel, Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length and quality make them worth recording, and works for Rainer Trost, Iris Vermillion, Michael Volle, Ruth Ziesak and others. Ulrich Eisenlohr two or more voices with piano accompaniment will also make up a part of the edition. has also appeared in numerous broadcast productions, live concert recordings and Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages television tapings as well as recordings for leading record companies, of which several and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, his have been awarded major prizes, such as the German Record Critics’ Quarterly contemporaries, and, of course, finally, poems by Heinrich Heine, although sadly the two never met. Award, a Grand Prix International from the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and the Classical Internet The entire edition is scheduled for completion by 2005. Thanks to the Neue Schubert Ausgabe (New Schubert Award. The conception and recording of all Schubert songs is by now an important focus of his artistic work. The Edition), published by Bärenreiter, which uses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible - the series is planned to be finished by 2006. Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the conservatories of music in performers have been able to benefit from the most recent research of the editorial team. For the first time, the Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and has conducted master-classes in Lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan, with listener and the interested reader can follow Schubert’s textual alterations and can appreciate the importance the singers such as Ruth Ziesak, Jard van Nes and Rudolf Piernay. He has served as assistant and accompanist for written word had for the composer. master-classes with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro (Juilliard School, New York) and The project’s Artistic Advisor is the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers Geoffrey Parsons. Since 1982 he has taught a Lieder class at the Mannheim Conservatory of Music. who represent the élite of today’s young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution, he believes, will stand the test of time. Also available on Naxos: Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 3 Goethe-Lieder, Vol. 1 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 1 An den Mond • Der Fischer • Ganymed • Meeres Stille Winterreise Prometheus • Wandrers Nachtlied I & II a.o. Roman Trekel, Baritone Ulf Bästlein, Baritone / Stefan Laux, Piano. .8.554665 Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano. 8.554471 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 4 Deutsche Schubert Lied Edition Vol. 2 Mayrhofer-Lieder, Vol. 1 Schwanengesang • Auf dem Strom • Herbst Der Alpenjäger • An die Freunde • Auf der Donau Lebensmut • Lieder on texts by Ludwig Rellstab Aus “Heliopolis” I & II • Der Hirt a.o. Michael Volle, Baritone / Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano Cornelius Hauptmann, Bass Sjön Scott, Horn. 8.554663 Stefan Laux, Piano. .8.554738 8.557369-70 2 11 8.557369-70 557369-70 bk Schubert US 16/03/2005 10:14am Page 10 Maya Boog Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Settings of poems by Schiller, Vols. 3 and 4 The Swiss soprano Maya Boog studied singing and church music in Lucerne, completing her training at the Cologne Musikhochschule in The two great classical writers of German literature, October 1814, a day generally seen as the birth-date of 1993, the winner of various awards, notably in the Barcelona Francisco Goethe and Schiller played, in very different ways, romantic German song, there had been eight Schiller Viñas Singing Competition. She made her début at the Municipal Theatre important rôles in Schubert’s career as a song settings, among them major works such as the already in Lucerne and also participated in the Zurich International Opera Studio. composer. Together with Schubert’s friend and admirer mentioned Leichenfantasie, D.7, or inspired monsters Her career has brought her engagements particularly in Baroque and Johann Mayrhofer they are also the poets most often set such as the first setting of Des Mädchens Klage, D.6 Mozart operas in Darmstadt, at the Komische Oper in Berlin, in among Schubert’s body of more than seven hundred (The Maiden’s Lament), after the first-born Hagars Mannheim, St Gallen and Drottningholm, in the Salzburg Mozart Week songs. Yet why did Schubert’s settings of Gretchen am Klage, D.5 (Hagar’s Lament), the earliest of the and with the Vienna Volksoper. In 2000 she took the title rôle in Rimsky- Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel), Erlkönig completed songs. Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at the Bregenz Festival, the following (The Erl King), and Heidenröslein (The Wild Rose) Schubert came across Schiller through another year making her début as Ilia in La clemenza di Tito and joining the Basel achieve worldwide fame far beyond the circle of composer, in whose works, during his schooldays, he Opera, where she has been seen