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Edith Mathis (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)» More |
The songs remains an enigma in various ways: the origin of its text, and its debt (or lack of it) to such sources as Grétry’s Richard Cœur de Lion, an opera which was a favourite with Viennese audiences in Schubert’s adolescence.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1997
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