Markus Schäfer
Die schöne Müllerin
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085533336
- Catalog number AVI 8553333
- Release date 28 August 2015
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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11Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Des Müllers Wanderslied
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12Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Müllers Blumen
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13Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Am Bach
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14Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Am Maienfeste
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15Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Vogelgesang von der Müllerin Fenster
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16Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Der Müller
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17Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Rose, die Müllerin
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18Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Müllers trockne Blumen
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19Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 11 (1818) Des Baches Lied
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110Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Das Wandern
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111Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Wohin?
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112Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Halt!
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113Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Danksagung an den Bach
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114Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Am Feierabend
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115Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Der Neugierige
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116Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Ungeduld
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117Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Morgengruss
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118Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Des Müllers Blumen
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119Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Tränenregen
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120Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Mein!
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121Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Pause
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122Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Mit dem grünen Lautenbande
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123Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Der Jäger
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124Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Eifersucht und Stolz
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125Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Die liebe Farbe
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126Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Die böse Farbe
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127Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Trockne Blumen
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128Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Der Müller und Bach
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129Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 Des Baches Wiegenlied