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Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, sombre and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl. In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major, scored for two cellos, which was not premiered until 1850, at the Vienna Musikverein. The power and orchestral dimensions of the work make it a pinnacle of nineteenth-century chamber music.
We could not have dreamt of a finer line-up of musicians to record these two Schubert monuments. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme, along with Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words No. 1 (for solo piano), composed a year after Schubert’s death and Schubert’s own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D. 744, on a poem by Johann Senn). © Alpha Classics
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Ludwig Rellstab, Lyricist - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Julian Pregardien, Soloist, MainArtist - Martin Helmchen, MainArtist - Fanny Mendelssohn, Composer
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
DISC 2
String Quintet in C major, D.956 (Franz Schubert)
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Christian Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Rachel Roberts, MainArtist - Tanja Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, MainArtist - Florian Donderer, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Christian Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Rachel Roberts, MainArtist - Tanja Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, MainArtist - Florian Donderer, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Christian Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Rachel Roberts, MainArtist - Tanja Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, MainArtist - Florian Donderer, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Franz Schubert, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Christian Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Rachel Roberts, MainArtist - Tanja Tetzlaff, MainArtist - Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, MainArtist - Florian Donderer, MainArtist
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
Album review
Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. The fourteen songs, by turns light-hearted, sombre and melancholy, are settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl. In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major, scored for two cellos, which was not premiered until 1850, at the Vienna Musikverein. The power and orchestral dimensions of the work make it a pinnacle of nineteenth-century chamber music.
We could not have dreamt of a finer line-up of musicians to record these two Schubert monuments. Fanny Mendelssohn’s Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme, along with Felix Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words No. 1 (for solo piano), composed a year after Schubert’s death and Schubert’s own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D. 744, on a poem by Johann Senn). © Alpha Classics
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:53:00
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Julian Prégardien Martin Helmchen Christian Tetzlaff
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2021 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2021 Classics / Outhere Music France & Sendesaal Bremen
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