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Die schöne Müllerin
Ludwig Berger, Franz Schubert

Markus Schäfer

Die schöne Müllerin

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533336
Catnr: AVI 8553333
Release date: 28 August 2015
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AVI 8553333
Release date
28 August 2015

"3*** ["] ..Returning phrases and repeat signs inveite to embellishments, improvisations and additions.""

Opera Nederland, 01-10-2015
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About the album

It all began with a musical parlor game. In the Berlin home of Privy Councilor Friedrich August von Staegemann in autumn of 1816, a group of young art-lovers put on a brief play with interspersed songs. It told the story of how Rose, the “lovely maid of the mill”, is courted by three men: a young miller, a gardener and a hunter. The latter eventually succeeds in winning her heart.

A number of songs were improvised for the occasion, based on poems some of the participants had written. The group of friends eventually wished to have those spur-of-the-moment songs replaced with true musical settings so turned to Berlin composer Ludwig Berger, who selected ten pieces and published corresponding settings in 1818 under the title Songs from the Liederspiel “Die schöne Müllerin".

In accordance with the Lied aesthetic en vogue in the early 1800’s, Berger set most of the poems as songs containing several stanzas of equal length. Five of the ten texts Berger set to music were poems by Wilhelm Müller. Born in 1794, it is no wonder that Müller took up the role of the miller-lad in the parlor song game.

Schubert only set twenty of Müller’s twenty-five poems. Three particularly extended numbers with many stanzas would have inserted too much delay into his interpretation designed to lead straight to the miller-lad’s bitter, mortal end.

Markus Schäfer and Tobias Koch have intensely studied the performance practice of Schubert’s time. However, their take on Berger’s and Schubert’s Lieder is not intended to be an act of purely reconstructive historicism, but rather a consciously subjective appropriation and transformation of a historical practice – far beyond merely ornamenting the original notes.

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Markus Schäfer

Lyric tenor Markus Schäfer enjoys international recognition thanks to continual, intense collaboration with early music ensembles and conductors such as La Petite Bande with Gustav Leonhardt and Sigiswald Kuijken, Concentus Musicus Wien under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and many others. His opera career began in Zurich and led him to the opera houses of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin. He currently makes frequent appearances at renowned festivals and music venues, such as Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Rheingau Music Festival, Styriarte in Graz, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Lincoln Center and Wigmore Hall. Schäfer has been on the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover as voice professor since 2008. His extended and variegated repertoire is documented...
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Lyric tenor Markus Schäfer enjoys international recognition thanks to continual, intense collaboration with early music ensembles and conductors such as La Petite Bande with Gustav Leonhardt and Sigiswald Kuijken, Concentus Musicus Wien under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and many others.
His opera career began in Zurich and led him to the opera houses of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berlin. He currently makes frequent appearances at renowned festivals and music venues, such as Salzburg Festival, the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Rheingau Music Festival, Styriarte in Graz, the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Lincoln Center and Wigmore Hall.
Schäfer has been on the faculty of the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover as voice professor since 2008. His extended and variegated repertoire is documented on a great number of recordings – not only featuring Classical and Romantic works, but also world premieres of music by living composers. Schäfer has nevertheless preserved his special relation with historical performance practice and early music, which has marked him the most and still occupies the larger portionof his widespread musical activity.

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Tobias Koch

To trace the essence of sound with the joy of discovery and open-minded versatility – that is the musical credo of Tobias Koch, one of the most fascinating current performers in the area of historical keyboard instruments. Koch never ceases to surprise his audiences with a series of exceptional projects, featuring an extensive variety of repertoire and a pronounced curiosity for discovering rare historical instruments and unknown musical gems. A comprehensive musical career as soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist has led him to tour throughout Europe. He appears as a guest artist in leading festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Ludwigsburg, Verbier, and the Warsaw Chopin Festival. Important musical partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Concerto Köln, Collegium 1704 Prag, Hofkapelle München, Frieder Bernius...
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To trace the essence of sound with the joy of discovery and open-minded versatility – that is the musical credo of Tobias Koch, one of the most fascinating current performers in the area of historical keyboard instruments. Koch never ceases to surprise his audiences with a series of exceptional projects, featuring an extensive variety of repertoire and a pronounced curiosity for discovering rare historical instruments and unknown musical gems.

A comprehensive musical career as soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist has led him to tour throughout Europe. He appears as a guest artist in leading festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Ludwigsburg, Verbier, and the Warsaw Chopin Festival.

Important musical partners include Andreas Staier, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Concerto Köln, Collegium 1704 Prag, Hofkapelle München, Frieder Bernius with Hofkapelle Stuttgart, the choirs of the broadcasting entities WDR (Cologne) and BR (Munich), and singers such as Dorothee Mields, Jan Kobow, Thomas E. Bauer, and Markus Schäfer, with whom he has been collaborating for many years. Tobias Koch works in tandem with instrument makers and restorers, as well as with some of the most important musical instrument museums;

He is on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf and imparts masterclasses on an international level. A wide range of publications and a great number of broadcast productions for radio and television round out his work in the field of music, along with over 40 CD releases of works ranging from Mozart to Brahms.


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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the...
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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3*** ["] ..Returning phrases and repeat signs inveite to embellishments, improvisations and additions."
Opera Nederland, 01-10-2015

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01.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Des Müllers Wanderslied
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(Ludwig Berger) Tobias Koch, Markus Schäfer
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Müllers Blumen
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Am Bach
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Am Maienfeste
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Vogelgesang von der Müllerin Fenster
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Der Müller
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Rose, die Müllerin
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
08.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Müllers trockne Blumen
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818): Des Baches Lied
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(Ludwig Berger) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
10.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Das Wandern
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Wohin?
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Halt!
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Danksagung an den Bach
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Am Feierabend
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Der Neugierige
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Ungeduld
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Morgengruss
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Des Müllers Blumen
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
19.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Tränenregen
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Mein!
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Pause
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Mit dem grünen Lautenbande
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Der Jäger
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Eifersucht und Stolz
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Die liebe Farbe
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Die böse Farbe
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
27.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Trockne Blumen
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Der Müller und Bach
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
29.
Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795: Des Baches Wiegenlied
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(Franz Schubert) Markus Schäfer, Tobias Koch
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