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Compact Disc CDJ33025

£13.99


This recording enables the listener to hear the much-loved cycle Die Schöne Müllerin from a new perspective. Included are the five poems Schubert chose not to set (and one omitted by Müller from his published collection). These are read by the spiritual father of all Lieder singers, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Schubert is said to have come across the Müller book in the library of Benedikt Randhartinger and was so taken with the poetry that he simply pocketed it and went home. Randhartinger called on him the next day to retrieve his property and was astonished to receive from the composer not only apologies for his strange behaviour but the first songs already composed. The resulting cycle has inspired singers and listeners in equally strong measure ever since.


Recorded on 10 December 1994 (poems); 26, 27, 28 October 1995 (songs)
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
JULIAN MILLARD
Recording Producer
MARK BROWN
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Photography
MALCOLM CROWTHERS
Executive Producers
JOANNA GAMBLE
EDWARD PERRY
Production Assistant
LUCY HAYWARD
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCVI

Duration: 72'38
DDD

The Hyperion Schubert Edition - 25

Die schöne Müllerin

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor
* DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU reader
GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

Contents:

    Die schöne Müllerin, D795

    (The Fair Maid of the Mill)
    Poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827)

  1. Der Dichter, als Prolog [2'50] *

  2. I Das Wandern [2'35]
  3. II Wohin? [2'30]
  4. III Halt! [1'32]
  5. IV Danksagung an den Bach [2'16]
  6. V Am Feierabend [2'29]
  7. VI Der Neugierige [3'56]

  8. Das Mühlenleben [1'42] *

  9. VII Ungeduld [2'38]
  10. VIII Morgengruss [4'00]
  11. IX Das Müllers Blumen [3'13]
  12. X Tränenregen [4'11]

  13. Ein ungereimtes Lied [0'45] *

  14. XI Mein! [2'23]
  15. XII Pause [4'30]
  16. XIII Mit dem grünen Lautenbande [2'05]
  17. XIV Der Jäger [1'15]
  18. XV Eifersucht und Stolz [1'36]

  19. Erster Schmerz, Ietzter Scherz [1'39] *

  20. XVI Die liebe Farbe [4'05]
  21. XVII Die böse Farbe [2'01]

  22. Blümlein Vergissmein [1'27] *

  23. XVIII Trockne Blumen [3'51]
  24. XIX Der Müller und der Bach [3'56]
  25. XX Des Baches Wiegenlied [6'17]

  26. Der Dichter, als Epilog [1'40] *

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER
PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE


'Bostridge's peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller … A soul-searching interpretation which now ranks with those tenor versions [listed above] as a recommendation' (Gramophone)

'Ian Bostridge produces youthfully golden tone and gives an eagerly detailed account to match even the finest rivals' (The Guardian)

'Another marvellous disc in an eminently collectable series' (The Independent)

'A particularly high point of achievement in the magnificent Hyperion Schubert Song Edition' (Opera Now)

'The performance by the young Bostridge is a miracle … Vocally he is immaculate, singing with a shining lyricism that recalls Wunderlich, but he is infinitely more characterful than the great German tenor: he brings the naive, impetuous, jealous, ultimately despairing and suicidal boy vividly to life as no other tenor on record and his youthful vulnerability is heart-rending. This wonderful disc makes you listen to Schubert's masterly cycle with refreshed ears. It's destined for my Christmas list and, surely, for fistfuls of awards' (The Sunday Times)

'Un disco imprescindible' (CD Compact, Spain)

'Graham Johnson could not have chosen more wisely from among the tenors available to him today'(Fanfare, USA)


See also:
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 1 - Goethe and Schiller settings
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 2 - Schubert's Water Songs
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 3 - Schubert and his Friends (I)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 4 - Schubert and his Friends (II)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 5 - Schubert and the Countryside
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 6 - Schubert and the Nocturne (I)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 7 - Schubert in 1815 (I)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 8 - Schubert and the Nocturne (II)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 9 - Schubert and the Theatre
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 10 - Schubert in 1815 (II)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 11 - Schubert and Death
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 12 - The Young Schubert (I)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 13 - Lieder Sacred and Profane
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 14 - Schubert and the Classics
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 15 - Schubert and the Nocturne (III)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 16 - Schiller settings
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 17 - Schubert in 1816
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 18 - Schubert and the Strophic Song
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 19 - Songs about flowers and nature
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 20 - An 1815 Schubertiad (I)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 21 - Schubert, 1817-1818
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 22 - An 1815 Schubertiad (II)
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 23 - Songs of 1816
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 24 - A Goethe Schubertiad
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 26 - An 1826 Schubertiad
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 27 - Schubert and the Schlegels
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 28 - An 1822 Schubertiad
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 29 - Schubert in 1819 and 1820
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 30 - Winterreise
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 31 - Schubert and Religion
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 32 - An 1816 Schubertiad
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 33 - The Young Schubert
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 34 - Schubert, 1817-1821
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 35 - Schubert, 1822-1825
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 36 - Schubert in 1827
Schubert: Complete Songs, Vol 37 - The Final Year
Schubert: The Complete Songs
Songs by Schubert's Friends and Contemporaries
The Hyperion Schubert Edition: 'A Voyage of Discovery'

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