Schubert: Schwanengesang D. 957 - Piano Sonata D. 960 Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Schwanengesang D. 957:
• 1I. Liebesbotschaft03:22
• 2II. Kriegers Ahnung04:40
• 3III. Frühlingssehnsucht03:26
• 4IV. Ständchen04:20
• 5V. Aufenthalt03:02
• 6Herbst D. 94504:08
• 7VI. In der Ferne06:33
• 8VII. Abschied04:27
• 9VIII. Der Atlas02:06
• 10IX. Ihr Bild03:47
• 11X. Das Fischermädchen02:33
• 12XI. Die Stadt03:07
• 13XII. Am Meer05:01
• 14XIII. Der Doppelgänger06:25
• 15XIV. Die Taubenpost04:23
• Piano Sonata D.960 in B Flat Major:
• 16I. Molto moderato21:13
• 17II. Andante sostenuto13:24
• 18III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza04:52
• 19IV. Allegro, ma non troppo09:47
• Total Runtime01:50:36

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Matthias Goerne setzt seine Schubertreise fort, die ihn einmal mehr als einen der interessantesten Liedersänger ausweist. Der Bariton »interpretiert« Schubert nicht nur, er durchlebt jedes einzelne Lied, ohne der Gefahr der Überzeichnung zu erliegen, und er lädt seine Zuhörer ein, diese intimen poetischen und musikalischen Erkundungen mitzuerleben. Der sechsten Folge dieser Serie liegt eine Bonus-CD mit Schuberts letzter Klaviersonate bei, die Christoph Eschenbach, einer von Goernes bevorzugten Klavierpartnern, unvergleichlich interpretiert: Unter den Händen dieses begnadeten Meisters offenbaren sich bis dahin nie gehörte Dimensionen dieses anderen Schwanengesangs.

„Matthias Goernes schmerzlich gedehnte, geradezu traumverlorene Deutung der Sonate D. 960 ist eine ungeheuer berührende Auseinandersetzung mit Schuberts Spätwerk. Kein Wunder, dass Christoph Eschenbach zu Goernes bevorzugten Begleitern am Klavier zählt.“ (stereoplay)

Matthias Goerne, Bariton
Christoph Eschenbach, Klavier

Christoph Eschenbach
is Music Director of both the National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Prior to assuming those positions in 2010, he was music director of the Orchestre de Paris and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Eschenbach made his San Francisco Symphony debut as a pianist in 1972 and his conducting debut in 1975. He appeared here most recently for two weeks of concerts in 2010, in which he led works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Zemlinsky, and Dalbavie. A distinguished concert pianist before his conducting career, Eschenbach began winning major piano competitions at age eleven and made his United States debut in 1969 with the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell, with whom he later studied conducting. Eschenbach’s current season includes performances with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Paris, as well as a tour of Germany with the London Philharmonic, concerts with the Israel Philharmonic, and a tour of Australia and Europe with the Australian Youth Orchestra. He returns to the Vienna State Opera to conduct performances of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio, leads the National Symphony at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and returns to the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic.

Matthias Goerne
made his SFS debut in 1996 singing bass in Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F minor. Most recently, he performed Brahms’ A German Requiem with MTT and the Orchestra in 2008. Goerne has been a regular performer at venues including Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, and with musical partners including Eschenbach and pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes and Alfred Brendel. He made his operatic debut in 1997 at the Salzburg Festival as Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This season, Goerne sings Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bavarian State Opera and Amfortas in a concert version of Wagner’s Parsifal with the Teatro Real in Madrid. He will also appear with the Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Filarmonica della Scala, as well as song recitals with Aimard and three Schubert cycles with Eschenbach at the Vienna Musikverein. He is currently recording an eleven-album series of Schubert songs for Harmonia Mundi.

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