Franz Schubert: Lieder - Volume 6: Voice: Vocal Album

Tiefe Stimme / Low Voice-Continuing the new Urtext edition of Schubert s Lieder editor Walther Dürr now presents Volume 6 for Low Voice. While volumes 1 to 4 of this series contain mostly Lieder that Schubert had published during his lifetime volume 5ff. contain the remaining songs which are presented basically chronologically in the order of their Deutsch catalogue number.The Lieder in this sixth volume were composed during the period between autumn 1814 and spring 1815. With Nachtgesang (D 119) and Trost in Tränen (D120) Schubert turns to the Strophenlied in its stricter sense for the first time. He develops an interest in this form parallel to his first involvement with Geothe. Schubert during this period an assistant teacher at his father s school orientated himself towards the so-called Berliner Liederschule particularly the songs of Johann Friedrich Reichardt. By the beginning of the year 1815 he drew his inspiration mainly from the texts of Theodor Körner; however he regularly still produced settings for the poetry of Goethe and Schiller.- Based on the Urtext of the New Schubert Edition - Newly engraved clearly presented musical layout- Foreword by Walther Dürr on the history and genesis of the work as well as an explanation of the sources for each individual lied (Eng/Ger)- Includes English translations of lieder texts by Richard Wigmore