570962 bk Schubert US 6/4/09 11:07 AM Page 12 DEUTSCHE Also available: SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION • 33 SCHUBERT Part-Songs, Vol. 2 (Mehrstimmige Gesänge, Folge 2) Rubens • Schwarz • Jakobi • Danz • Wiedemann • Schäfer Ullmann • Bauer • Flaig • Schmidl • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano 8.570480 8.572036 8.570961 A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk 8.570962 12 570962 bk Schubert US 6/4/09 11:07 AM Page 2 Franz Peter Gesualdo. Markus Flaig has since developed a wide repertoire of oratorio and his first solo recording was devoted to cantatas by Bach, Telemann and Graupner. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, in Central and South SCHUBERT America and the Far East, and since 1997 has collaborated in Lieder repertoire with the pianist Jörg Schweinbenz. (1797-1828) Part-Songs, Vol. 2 Marcus Schmidl Markus Schmidl had his early training as a chorister at Regensburg Cathedral, going on to 1 Gott in der Natur (God in Nature), D. 757 (Kleist) 5:38 study at the Munich Musikhochschule with Raimund Grumbach and Wolfgang Brendel, and 2 thereafter working free-lance as a singer and arranger in Munich. In addition to appearances Der 23. Psalm, Op. 132, D. 706 (Transl. by Moses Mendelssohn) 5:03 as a soloist he is particularly involved in ensemble work in various groups, including the 3 Das Leben (Life), D. 269 (Wannovius) 1:37 Stimmwerck Vocal Quartet. 4 La pastorella al prato (The shepherdess in the meadow), D. 513 (Goldoni) 2:00 5 Naturgenuß (Delight in Nature) (2nd setting), D.422 (Matthisson) 3:55 Beitrag zur fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier des Herrn von Salieri (Contribution to the 50th jubilee celebrations of Herr Salieri), D. 407 (Schubert) Ulrich Eisenlohr 6 I. Gütigster, Bester, Weisester: Terzett, Sostenuto 2:17 7 II. So Güt’ als Weisheit strömen mild: Aria für Tenor, Andantino 2:03 Ulrich Eisenlohr studied at the conservatory of music in Heidelberg/Mannheim (Rolf 8 III. Unser aller Großpapa: Kanon für 3 Stimmen mit Coda 0:45 Hartmann, piano) and Lieder under Konrad Richter at Stuttgart. Specialising in the areas of song accompaniment and chamber music, he began an extensive concert 9 Licht und Liebe (Nachtgesang) (Light and Love: Night Song), D. 352 (M. von Collin) 4:26 career with numerous instrumental and vocal partners in Europe, America and Japan, with appearances at the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, the Berlin Festival 0 Antigone und Ödip (Antigone and Oedipus), Op. 6, No. 2, D. 542 (Mayrhofer) 5:32 Weeks, the Kulturzentrum Gasteig in Munich, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Edinburgh Festival, Frankfurt Festival, ! Linde Weste wehen (Gentle west winds blow), D. 725 (fragment, Anonymous) 0:41 International Beethoven Festival Bonn and the Ludwigsburg Festival, among many Photo: Wolfgang Detering others. He has collaborated with a number of leading singers in Lieder recitals and @ Kantate zum Geburtstag des Sängers Johann Michael Vogl has also appeared in numerous broadcasts, live concert recordings and television (Cantata for the Birthday of the Singer Johann Michael Vogl), D. 666 (Stadler) 9:45 transmissions, as well as in recordings for leading record companies, several of which have been awarded major prizes, including the German Record Critics’ Quarterly # Klage um Ali Bey (Lament for Ali Bey) (1st setting), D. 140 (Claudius) 4:34 Award, a Grand Prix International from the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and the Classical Internet Award. The conception and recording of all Schubert songs for $ Gondelfahrer (The Gondolier) (2nd setting), Op. 28, D. 809 (Mayrhofer) 3:36 Naxos is now an important focus of his artistic work. The series will be finished in % 2009. The recording of Hugo Wolf’s complete songs is planned for the near future. Coronach (Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen) Ulrich Eisenlohr has been a lecturer at the conservatories of music in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe and has conducted (Coronach: Dirge of the Women), Op. 52, No. 4, D. 836 (Scott/Storck) 5:32 master-classes in Lied and chamber music in Europe and Japan. He has served as accompanist for master-classes with Hans Hotter, Christa Ludwig, Elsa Cavelti, Daniel Ferro (Juilliard School, New York) and Geoffrey Parsons. ^ Bootgesang (Boat Song), Op. 52, No. 3, D. 835 (Scott/Storck) 4:04 Since 1982 he has taught a Lieder class at the Mannheim Conservatory of Music. & Ständchen (Serenade), Op. 135, D. 920 (Grillparzer) 5:49 8.570962 2 11 8.570962 570962 bk Schubert US 6/4/09 11:07 AM Page 10 Marcus Ullmann THE DEUTSCHE SCHUBERT-LIED-EDITION The lyric tenor Marcus Ullmann was born in 1967 in Olbernhau near Dresden, and started In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which singing as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor at the age of ten, thereafter studying with he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert’s) Hartmut Zabel and Margaret Trappe-Wiel at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. Later he luck in a letter to the then unquestioned Master of the German language, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin and with Marga Schiml in Karlsruhe. His A selection of German songs will constitute the beginning of this edition; it will consist of eight volumes. The early career brought engagements in various opera houses in Germany and abroad, and he first two (the first of which, as an example, you will find in our letter) contains poems written by your Excellency, has appeared successfully in most of the major Mozart rôles, in addition to staged versions the third, poetry by Schiller, the fourth and fifth, works by Klopstock, the sixth by Mathison, Hölty, Salis etc., the of Bach’s St John Passion and B Minor Mass and Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons. seventh and eighth contain songs by Ossian, whose works are quite exceptional. He has appeared in concert as a soloist in North and South America and throughout Europe, The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition follows the composer’s original concept. All Schubert’s Lieder, over 700 and has worked together with leading conductors, often performing with the Dresden songs, will be grouped according to the poets who inspired him, or according to the circle of writers, Kreuzchor, the Windsbach Knabenchor and the Thomanerchor Leipzig. As a recitalist, he contemporaries, members of certain literary movements and so on, whose works Schubert chose to set to music. has been a guest at major festivals both in Germany and internationally. Most frequently he Fragments and alternative settings, providing their length and quality make them worth recording, and works for works together with Alexander Schmalcz and Camillo Radicke. Radio and television broadcasts as well as two or more voices with piano accompaniment will also make up a part of the edition. numerous recordings are evidence of his talent as a remarkable tenor. 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 Thomas E. Bauer 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 The baritone Thomas Bauer was a chorister at Regensburg Cathedral, and studied under Edition), published by Bärenreiter, which uses primary sources - autograph copies wherever possible - the Hanno Blaschke and Siegfried Mauser at the Munich Musikhochschule. He made his operatic performers have been able to benefit from the most recent research of the editorial team. For the first time, the début at the Prinzregententheater in Munich in 1997, going on to undertake leading rôles at the listener and the interested reader can follow Schubert’s textual alterations and can appreciate the importance the Salzburg Festival, the Ruhr Triennale and the Munich Biennale. He has worked together with a written word had for the composer. number of distinguished conductors, including Philippe Herreweghe, Jos van Immerseel, Ivan The project’s Artistic Advisor is the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr, who has chosen those German-speaking singers Fischer, Markus Stenz, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sigiswald Kuijken, Jos van Immerseel, and who represent the élite of today’s young German Lieder singers, performers whose artistic contribution, he Peter Ruzicka, with performances at the Philharmonic Halls of Munich and Berlin, at the believes, will stand the test of time. Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Paris Cité de la Musique, the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, the Triphony Hall in Tokyo and in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, among others. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Bavarian Federal Government and the Ernst von Siemens Music Endowment Fund. Other awards have come from the Paris Cité Internationale des Arts and the German Music Competition. For his excellent performances in the field of contemporary music, in 2003 he was awarded the first Schneider Schott Music Prize to be given to a vocalist. For his fine Lieder evening début in the old imperial city of Kyoto in Japan he received the 2003 Aoyama Music Award. Markus Flaig Born in Horb am Neckar, Markus Flaig studied school and church music at the Freiburg im Breisgau Musikhochschule, going on to study singing with Beata Heuer-Christen and in the opera class of Gerd Heinz. He went on to further study with Berthold Possemeyer in Frankfurt am Main, until 2004, followed in 2006 with study under Carol Meyer-Bruetting in Frankfurt. Early appearances included rôles in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace and Noyes Fludde, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and collaboration in madrigals by Monteverdi and 8.570962 10 3 8.570962 570962 bk Schubert US 6/4/09 11:07 AM Page 4 Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Ingeborg Danz Part Songs, Vol.