Ed Zubrow: >Picked up a bargain disc of Schubert Part-Songs for Men's Choir. ... > >Having listened to it I am ambivalent. Some seem to work extremely well. >In others, frankly, it sounds like Songs of the Red Army. > >Anyone have experience of this aspect of Schubert's output? I've sung a couple of the more nature-contemplative ones. Very simple and straightforward. I enjoyed them (and wish we had performed them better). This is actually a genre which most Romantic composers practiced. There are also some fine examples by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Berlioz, and Brahms. No, they're not often done or recorded. Steve Schwartz