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Track(s) taken from CDJ33023

Am ersten Maimorgen, D344

First line:
Heute will ich fröhlich, fröhlich sein
composer
c1816; privately published by Reinhard van Hoorickx
author of text

Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
Recording details: September 1994
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 1995
Total duration: 1 minutes 30 seconds
 

Reviews

‘When the Hyperion Schubert Edition is finally completed I am certain that this wondrous offering will rank among its most precious jewels … Prégardien is a prince among tenors’ (Gramophone)

‘Prégardien is an artist of the first rank’ (Fanfare, USA)
The album of seventeen songs which Schubert put together for Therese Grob in November 1816 contains three songs that were found only in that source. The first of these is a Klage of doubtful authenticity (formerly D512 but exiled in the second edition of Deutsch to the appendix) and the others are on this record—Am ersten Maimorgen and Mailied. Both of these songs are delightful without being very demanding, and both had to wait private publication by Reinhard Van Hoorickx. The opening of Am ersten Maimorgen with its G major tune in ascending thirds and its suggestion of nursery-rhyme simplicity puts us in mind of the Hölty setting Die frühe Liebe earlier in this recital. The poet Claudius (this was probably Schubert's introduction to the north German poet) has an earthy love of the simple joys of life in common with Hölty. Claudius was soon to lead the composer into darker and more profound utterances than this (the next song on this disc is an example) but the merry side of Claudius we hear in this song is just as much a part of Der Wandsbecker Bote ('The Wandsbecker Messenger', the paper Claudius edited and also his nickname) as Der Tod und das Mädchen.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 1995

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