This is the third and last of three recitals in this series devoted to the songs of 1816 and marks the beginning of the last lap of the project initiated some ten years ago. Since those early days we have broadened the scope of The Hyperion Schubert Edition to include all the part-songs with piano, a number of the unaccompanied choral works that are relevant to the main body of the lieder, and the considerable number of fragments that throw further light on Schubert's output. This makes the Schubert Edition the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of this composer's piano-accompanied vocal music.

After the present disc 5 further volumes, Schubertiads of different sizes, are projected to complete the series. Of these, Vols36 and 37 will have small solo casts of three singers each, whereas Vols33 to 35 will (like Vol 32) feature a larger number of singers drawn from the history of the Schubert Edition.