Schubert and rhetoric
While the best Schubert songs tend to be those with an obsessional musical idea driving forward the central argument (Die Junge Nonne,...
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Schubert and Greek mythology part one
Schubert has a certain reputation as a composer of attractive ditties such as Die Forelle or Heidenröslein, but for those who wish to...
The week that's in it
Schubertreise XVII (imagine, almost halfway there) is approaching fast, and as usual I feel a mixture of fear and exaltation. Usually at...
Common sense/upcoming programme
When I began the Schubertreise series in Bever, my idea was to follow the Bärenreiter edition more or less as the thirteen volumes...
How it looked on the page
One of the perks in using the Bärenreiter Urtext edition of the Schubert songs is that the poetry set by Schubert is printed as Schubert...
Schubert's poets
Schubert set texts by no less than one hundred and eighteen poets, including one poem he wrote himself. Goethe (74), Schiller (44) and...
Fortepianos and Schubertreise
For the series of thirty five recitals in Jodoigne (Belgium) Michel Stas and I are very fortunate in having a variety of period...
Bärenreiter versus Peters continued
Yesterday I roundly criticized the Peters edition for its failure to publish the complete Schubert songs, thus limiting performers...
Des Mädchens Klage: the legacy of the Peters Edition
Schubertreise is following the new Bärenreiter edition of the complete Schubert songs, which for the first time publishes all known...
Master the music: memorizing all those songs
Indeed — how does one memorize 577 songs? Many years ago I came across a book entitled "How to conquer stage fright" written a long time...
