Ed Zubrow:

>Anyone have experience of this aspect of Schubert's output?

I have Hyperion's CD of The Schubert Edition (complete songs) No.6., with
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, accompanied by Graham Johnson, of course.  The last
item is"Zur Guten Nacht" sung by ARJ,plus mens' chorus.

The accompanying notes, all by G.Johnson,  includes:

   "like a good many of Schubert's songs for male voices, the music is
   simple, heartfelt,and very German in that  it is easier to imagine
   a group of German men sitting around a table singing this song about
   death, and parting,  with tears pouring into their beer,than it is
   to imagine it in England."

(Of course, it would be easier to imagine a group of Liverpool Football
supporters over here whose team had lost a really important match, crying
as they sang "their theme song, "You'll Never Walk Alone")

Doris in England. (A new member)