| Naxos | The poetic horizon of Franz Schubert and his songs is reflected again in the poems of his circle of friends. Altogether Schubert set even more poems by his friends than he did those of Goethe or Schiller, by far the most distinguished poets. More than two thirds of these texts come from his closest friends, Johann Mayrhofer and Franz von Schober. While Mayrhofer, with about fifty settings, comes in third place after the two great classical German poets, Schober, with eighteen compositions, thirteen of them songs, stands on a par with Friedrich Schlegel, the leader of the German romantics. These quantitative comparisons are evidence of the essential quality of Schubert’s poetic creed: the songs on texts by his friends combine the idealistic feeling of the classical with the Utopian longing of the romantic. The echo of a ‘better world’ (besseren Welt) resounds particularly in Schober’s poems, yet under conditions of pessimism. The poetry of Schubert’s circle was not only under the influence of classical-romantic cultural inspiration, but showed in particular the symptoms of world-weariness spreading throughout Europe about 1820 |
| Disc No: 8.554799 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Schubert Lieder Friends Vol.1 | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Schubert, Franz | D761 | Schatzgrabers Begehr | Markus Eiche, baritone Jens Fuhr, piano | |
| Schubert, Franz | D909 | Jagers Liebeslied | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D143 | Genugsamkeit | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D565 | Der Strom | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D218 | Grablied | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D209 | Der Liedler | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D134 | Ballade (Ein Fraulein schaut vom hohen Turm) | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D906 | Der Vater mit dem Kind | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D545 | Der Jungling und der Tod (2nd version) | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D551 | Pax Vobiscum | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D910 | Schiffers Scheidelied | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D789 | Pilgerweise | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D361 | Am Bach im Fruhling | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D547 | An die Musik | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D737 | An die Leier | ||
| Schubert, Franz | D785 | Der zurnende Barde |