Tomlinson / S. Bevan / Bliss / Glynn -Schwanengesang D 957 (engl. Version) -Signum Cla CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Swan Song (English version by Jeremy Sams)

01. Sir John Tomlinson "Love Message"

02. Sir John Tomlinson "The Warroir's Foreboding"

03. Sir John Tomlinson "Longing in Spring"

04. Sir John Tomlinson "Serenade"

05. Sir John Tomlinson "My Home"

06. Sir John Tomlinson "Far away"

07. Sir John Tomlinson "Leave-taking"

08. Sir John Tomlinson "Atlas"

09. Sir John Tomlinson "Her Picture"

10. Sir John Tomlinson "The Fisher Maiden"

11. Sir John Tomlinson "The Town"

12. Sir John Tomlinson "By the Sea"

13. Sir John Tomlinson "Doppelg?nger"

14. Sir John Tomlinson "Pigeon Post"

15. Sophie Bevan "On the River D. 943 (English version by Jeremy Sams)"

16. Sophie Bevan "The Shepherd on the Rock D. 965 (English version by Jeremy Sams)"

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John Tomlinson/ Sophie Bevan/ Christopher Glynn A.o.

Description:

Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English. "Schubertâ??s Swansong, though not itself a cycle, is a logical extension of Die SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin and Winterreise. Here again are the brooks and the birds, the jilted suitors leaving town, the lovers looking at or into the belovedâ??s house. Loss and longing are everywhere. But if SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin is about hope (finding someone to love) and Winterreise is about despair (leaving someone loved), Schwanengesang is about resignation. The beloved is not by your side and one can deal with that in different ways. By sending messages via rivers, trees or even pigeons. By flight, by self-imposed exile, by dreaming of what might have been and by accepting what never will. The distant or absent beloved is present in almost every song, and though there is no journey involved as in the previous cycles, there is a unity in this collection which shows one where Schubertâ??s thoughts were. He knew he was going to die and die alone." - Christopher Glynn - JOHN TOMLINSON/SOPHIE BEVAN/CHRISTOPHER GLYNN A.O.

Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English, joined by celebrated soloists Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss and Alec Frank-Gemmill. Titled by the works first published following Schubert's death, 'Swansong' D 957 sets the words of poets Ludwig Rellstab, Heinrich Heine and Johann Gabriel Seidl in songs that cover a variety of different emotional states. The lighthearted 'Love Message' with it's rippling accompaniment, addresses a murmuring brook with the hope of true love. The bone- chilling 'Doppelganger' with it's stark, slowly tolling chords, finds the protagonist crazed with a nocturnal vision of himself agonizing at the empty doorstep of his lost love. Renowned for his clear diction and powerful voice, Sir John Tomlinson brings his insight and nuance to these profound works. Reminiscent of the scoring for The Shepherd on the Rock and composed in the same year, 'On the River' combines soprano, clarinet and horn in a setting of a poem by Ludwig Rellstab. Originally given to Beethoven who did not live long enough to set it, Schubert took up the words in a work that is a subtle homage to the composer. The 1828 work The Shepherd on the Rock sets words by Wilhelm Muller and German playwright Helmina von Chezy, and was composed in gratitude to the soprano Anna Milder-Hauptmann. Here performed by Sophie Bevan and Julian Bliss, it tells the story of a shepherd lamenting the distance between him and his beloved before a reflection on loneliness and grief. The final section celebrates the arrival of spring in a hopeful conclusion.

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SIGCD550

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