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Schubert among friends (CD)

 

Nominated for 2008 Juno Award "Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral" category

Composer: Franz Schubert

Performers:

·        Gillian Keith, soprano

·        Colin Ainsworth, tenor

·        Michael Schade, tenor

·        Gerald Finley, bass-baritone

·        Stephen Ralls & Bruce Ubukata - pianos

Label: Marquis Classics/Aldeburgh Connection

Released: April 10, 2007

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Marquis Music / Aldeburgh Connections

ASIN: B000MR9EX0


For more information see Aldeburgh Connection


Track listing (click on titles to hear music samples)

1.    Dithyrambe (Schiller), D801– Finley/Ralls

2.    Täglich zu singen (Claudius), D533 – Schade/Ubukata

3.    Lachen und Weinen (Rückert), D777 – Keith/Ralls

4.    Der Wanderer an den Mond (Seidl), D870 – Finley/Ubukata

5.    Die Sterne (Leitner), D939 – Keith/Ralls

6.    An eine Quelle (Claudius), D530 – Schade/Ralls

7.    Nachtviolen (Mayrhofer), D752 – Keith/Ubukata

8.    Der Jüngling an der Quelle (Salis-Seewis), D300 – Schade / Ubukata

9.    Am Bach im Frühlinge (Schober), D361 – Finley/Ubukata

10.           Der Schmetterling (Schlegel) D633 – Keith/Ralls

11.           Das Lied im Grünen (Reil), D917 – Schade/Ralls

12.           Der Hochzeitsbraten (Schober), D930 – Keith/Ainsworth/Finley /Ralls

13.           Rondo in A, D951 – Ralls/Ubukata

14.           Mignon und der Harfner (Goethe) D877/1 – Keith/Ainsworth/ Ralls

15.           Sehnsucht (Schiller), D636 – Finley/Ralls

16.           Nähe des Geliebten (Goethe), D162 – Schade/Ubukata

17.           Die abgeblühte Linde (Széchényi), D514 – Keith/Ubukata

18.           Am Tage Aller Seelen (Litanei) (Jacobi), D343 – Finley/Ubukata

19.           Der Musensohn (Goethe), D764 – Schade/Ralls

 

From the Marquis Music website

http://www.marquisclassics.com/365_schub.asp

Schubert Among Friends is a brilliant recreation of what a musical evening with Schubert would have been like. The CD features many of the composer's best loved songs and piano music, performed by four internationally acclaimed Canadian singers and two pianists renowned for their sensitive interpretations of Schubert's music.

This Schubert repertoire centres around the theme of 'connection' in several forms: love and friendship, separation and loss, kinship with nature. The songs range from the most light-hearted to some of Schubert's most deeply-felt and expressive music (notably the famous Litanei).

For this recording, Aldeburgh Connection artistic directors and pianists Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata brought together a group of their singer friends to record a Schubertiad, a musical party which was a favourite activity of Schubert's circle.

Gerald Finley sings at the Met, the Paris Opera, Covent Garden and other leading opera houses in roles as diverse as Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin or Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' Dr Atomic. Michael Schade is well-known as one of the world's leading Mozart tenors. Gillian Keith and Colin Ainsworth are outstanding luminaries of the younger generation of Canadian singers, each becoming increasingly busy with operatic and concert appearances in Europe and North America. Catalog: MAR 365