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Track(s) taken from CDJ33010

An die Geliebte, D303

First line:
O dass ich dir vom stillen Auge
composer
first published in 1887
author of text

Martyn Hill (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Recording details: May 1990
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: February 1991
Total duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Reviews

‘Hill's work here is inspired enough to place him in a line of tenor-interpreters of Schubert that leads from Erb and Patzak through Schreier to Rolfe Johnson. In legato, tone and above all understanding his readings are little short of ideal, from start to finish … this is a disc no Schubertian can possibly be without and a further jewel in this series's crown’ (Gramophone)

‘This is quite the equal of its predecessors in this marvellous series’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘After hearing Martyn Hill's breathtaking An die Apfelbäume' you'll never be the same person’ (Kansas City Star)
John Reed points out that this, and all the other songs of October 15th were written on the name day of Schubert's beloved of the time, Therese Grob. If he was inspired to a large creative outburst in her honour there is little doubt as to who is the beloved of this song. Like Labetrank der Liebe this is about intimate exchange, the mingling of tears as a symbol of the interpenetration of one human soul and body, with another. Wishful thinking, in the case of this composer, produces music of the greatest intensity, for fulfilment at this stage of his life (and perhaps any other) would have short-circuited the agony of sexual longing which spurred creative fantasy. The music (particularly the music of the opening bars) reappears as the Claudius setting An die Nachtigall from the following year. An die Geliebte does not perhaps achieve the perfect balance of classical and romantic elements of that famous song, but it is a worthy companion of the other Stoll settings, which is recommendation enough. All is translucent texture, with a succession of exquisite sequences and suspensions—in short, a perfect page.

Josef Ludwig Stoll was a doctor's son who, after a grand tour of Europe, became a well-known Viennese journalist. He was editor of the periodical Prometheus. It is possible that Schubert's attention was drawn to the poet's work by Stoll's death in January 1815. The poet apparently died in needy circumstances having squandered a considerable inheritance.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 1990

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