Schubert / Pregardien,Christoph - Poetisches Tagebuch: Lieder on Texts By Schulze - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

While it is no surprise to learn that many composers, including Reger and Webern, made arrangements of Schubert's Lieder, what is surprising is how seldom they tend to feature in concert or on record. This showcases thirteen Schubert songs in orchestrated versions by Max Reger and four such by Anton Webern, one of the original Second Viennese School members. Accomplished with much craftsmanship, these arrangements merit notice as masterly, unparalleled works of art in and of themselves. German tenor Christian Elsner is heard aside the Berlin Radio Symphony and maestro Marek Janowski. Details 1. An Die Musik, D547 2. Erlkönig, D328 3. Du Bist Die Ruh', D776 4. Greisengesang, D778 5. An Den Mond, D296 6. Prometheus, D674 7. Nacht Und Träume, D827 8. Wer Sich Der Einsamkeit Ergibt, D478 9. Wer Nie Sein Brot Mit Tränen Aß 10. An Die Türen Will Ich Schleichen 11. Gruppe Aus Dem Tartarus, D583 12. Tränenregen 13. Der Wegweiser 14. Memnon, D541 15. Ihr Bild 16. Litanei Auf Das Fest Allerseelen, D343 17. Im Abendrot, D799

Peter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the world's leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On the present he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon the traveller in Schubert's Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Müller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Müller's texts revolve around a young man who after being rejected leaves his village and heads into the desolate, snowy countryside. In the course of the cycle he experiences loss and an aching loneliness interrupted by fleeting glimpses of hope, but ultimately the landscape through which he is moving is colored by alienation and despair. Müller died at thirty-two years old in 1827, the very year in which Winterreise was composed - and Schubert himself died the following year, still making revisions to the last of the songs while on his deathbed. When Schubert invited his closest friends to a gathering in order to listen to the cycle he called the songs 'gruesome', and according to one witness the audience was shocked by their sombre mood. In this recording, Mattei brings all his interpretive skills to bear. He is supported by the piano of Lars David Nilsson, which reinforces the different moods and characters of the twenty-four songs and often assumes the role of a narrator, alongside the singer.

Details 1. Carl Frühling Fantasy for Flute Op. 55 2. Béla Bartók Suite Paysanne Hongroise 11?03 (Arr. Paul Arma) 3. Chants Populaires Tristes 4. Scherzo 5. Vieilles Danses 6. Sigfrid Karg-Elert Chaconne Op. 107/30 7. Franz Schubert 'Trockne Blumen' Introduction and Variations D 802 8. Toshio Hosokawa Lied for Flute and Piano 9. André Jolivet Chant de Linos