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Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:10:43 -0400 |
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Some time before Beethoven composed his last symphony, Shubert had set
stanzas from Schiller's "Ode to Joy" to music in his own Lied. I heard it
just now on a Hyperion CD (CDJ33016) of Thomas Allen singing Schubert songs
to texts by Schiller accompanied by Graham Johnson, which I had bought last
week in a sale at Tower Records. I thought it a wonderful setting. The CD
also contains, among other Lieder, Schubert's setting of "Die Buergschaft"
("The Pledge", the Damon and Pythias story), almost a mini-opera with one
voice singing the various parts and that of the narrator, lasting 16 and a
half minutes. I have Fischer-Dieskau singing it on a DG lp but have never
found it recorded on a separate CD before (I've not bought the complete
FiDi Schubert set) and its inclusion on this CD has contributed further
to making it a valuable addition to my collection.
Walter Meyer
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