Schubert and rhetoricWhile the best Schubert songs tend to be those with an obsessional musical idea driving forward the central argument (Die Junge Nonne,...
Schubert and Greek mythology part oneSchubert 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 itSchubertreise XVII (imagine, almost halfway there) is approaching fast, and as usual I feel a mixture of fear and exaltation. Usually at...
Common sense/upcoming programmeWhen 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 pageOne 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 poetsSchubert set texts by no less than one hundred and eighteen poets, including one poem he wrote himself. Goethe (74), Schiller (44) and...
Fortepianos and SchubertreiseFor 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 continuedYesterday 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 EditionSchubertreise 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 songsIndeed — how does one memorize 577 songs? Many years ago I came across a book entitled "How to conquer stage fright" written a long time...