Die Schöne Müllerin
Release date:
January 2022Featuring:
- Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
- Joseph Middleton (piano)
Record label:
SignumCatalogue number:
SIGCD697A new recording of Franz Schubert’s seminal cycle Die Schöne Müllerin, recorded by countertenor and former St John's chorister and choral scholar Iestyn Davies, together with pianist Joseph Middleton.
Adapting poetry by Wilhelm Müller, the genesis of D. 795 marks the beginning of the end of Schubert's life; he discovered that he had contracted syphilis sometime in late 1822 or early 1823, and it was in 1823 that he composed this tale of a poet-singer who dies in the aftermath of erotic experience.
The album booklet includes full texts and translations from Richard Stokes, and notes from prominent Lied expert Susan Youens.
Track list
- Das Wandern
- Wohin?
- Halt!
- Danksagung an den Bach
- Am Feierabend
- Der Neugierige
- Ungeduld
- Morgengruß
- Des Müllers Blumen
- Tränenregen
- Mein!
- Pause
- Mit dem grünen Lautenbande
- Der Jäger
- Eifersucht und Stolz
- Die liebe Farbe
- Die böse Farbe
- Trockne Blumen
- Der Müller und der Bach
- Des Baches Wiegenlied
Reviews
This is often a beguiling – and well-recorded – album. The countertenor's fans need not hesitate, and adventurous Schbertians might well also want to seek it out for a fresh perspective on this familiar work
Hugo Shirley, Gramophone
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The contribution of Andrew Nethsingha and St John's College, Cambridge to the Evensong tradition - both in the chapel and on record - deserves great praise
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