Sir John Tomlinson | Christopher Glynn
Swansong
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212055021
- Catalog number SIGCD 550
- Release date 05 October 2018
About the album
Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English.
"Schubert’s Swansong, though not itself a cycle, is a logical extension of Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. Here again are the brooks and the birds, the jilted suitors leaving town, the lovers looking at or into the beloved’s house. Loss and longing are everywhere. But if Schöne Müllerin 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 Schubert’s thoughts were. He knew he was going to die and die alone." - Christopher Glynn
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11Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' I. Liesbesbotschaft
02:59 -
12Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' II. Kreigers Ahnung
05:30 -
13Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' III. Frühlingssehnsucht
03:47 -
14Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' IV. Ständchen
03:48 -
15Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' V. Aufenthalt
03:28 -
16Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' VI. In der Ferne
05:20 -
17Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' VII. Abschied
04:31 -
18Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' VIII. Der Atlas
02:20 -
19Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' IX. Ihr Bild
03:01 -
110Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' X. Das Fischermädchen
02:11 -
111Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' XI. Die Stadt
03:08 -
112Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' XII. Am Meer
04:30 -
113Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' XIII. Der Doppelgänger
04:09 -
114Schwanengesang D. 957 'Swan Song' XIV. Die Taubenpost
03:54 -
115Auf dem Strom, D.943 'On the River'
08:59 -
116Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D.965 'The Shepherd on the Rock'
11:07