专辑名称：Schubert's Four Seasons

歌手名称：Carolyn Sampson / Joseph Middleton / Michael Collins

发行时间：2025-04-04

发行公司：BIS

After A Soprano’s Schubertiade (BIS2343) and Elysium (BIS2573), Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present a new recital devoted to Schubert’s songs on the theme of the changing seasons.

While there have also been other successful celebrations of the four seasons in music, Franz Schubert, a lover of nature, here evokes them in his lieder. Winter, imbued with nostalgia, is represented here by three songs in which the Schubertian hero sings of lost love. But gloomy thoughts soon give way to spring, synonymous with optimism and hope as nature returns to life: ‘Welcome, with your happy swarm of newly awakened creatures around me.’ If life is in full swing during the summer, the hero now seems uncertain about the happy outcome of his quest for love. In autumn, evoked here by six songs, the hero can only acknowledge his failure, reflected by nature preparing for a months-long sleep: ‘Ah, as the stars disappear in the sky, so does life’s hope fade away.’

Clarinettist Michael Collins joins the duo for one song, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Schubert’s penultimate composition. Inspired by yodelling, this extended lied ends with the hope of a better life, with spring just around the corner and the prophetic words of ‘now I shall prepare/to go a-wandering’ heralding the composer’s approaching death.

01. Sehnsucht, D. 879

02. Der Winterabend, D. 938

03. Lied (Die Mutter Erde), D. 788

04. Frühlingsglaube, D. 686

05. Nachtviolen, D. 752

06. Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D. 965

07. Die Mainacht, D. 194

08. Mein Gruß an den Mai, D. 305

09. Im Frühling, D. 882

10. Schäfers Klagelied, D. 121

11. Die Forelle, D. 550

12. Heidenröslein, D. 257

13. Die Rose, D. 745

14. Die Sommernacht, D. 289b

15. Herbst, D. 945

16. An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht, D. 614

17. Erntelied, D. 434

18. Herbstlied, D. 502

19. Im Freien, D. 880

20. Rastlose Liebe, D. 138

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