Songs
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
(1823)
D774
This song was recorded on the album 'Schubert Year by Year' on Stone Records, in preparation for Oxford Lieder's 2014 The Schubert Project, the first ever complete performance of Schubert's songs in a single festival. It features one song from each year of Schubert's creative life.
Click here to listen to the song with James Gilchrist and Sholto Kynoch, or click here to buy the CD from Stone Records.
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
To be sung on the water
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Composer
Franz Peter Schubert was an late Classical and early Romantic composer. He produced a vast oeuvre during his short life, composing more the 600 vocal works (largely Lieder), and well as several symphonies, operas, and a large body of piano music. He was uncommonly gifted from a young age, but appreciation of his music was limited during his lifetime. His work became more popular in the decades after his death, and was praised by 19th century composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Liszt.
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Poet
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg, was a German poet, lawyer and translator born at Bramstedt in Holstein (then a part of Denmark).
Friedrich Leopold belonged to a cadet branch of the Stolberg family. He was born the son of a Danish magistrate and owner of a manorial estate, Count Christian zu Stolberg. Together with his brother Christian, Friedrich Leopold went to the University of Halle in 1770, in order to study German Law. His other studies embraced the Classics and various historical courses. The two brothers then studied in Göttingen and were a prominent members of the famous Hain or Dichterbund, a society of young men who had high aspirations for the unity of the country, and who cultivated German poetry. After leaving the university the brothers made a journey to Switzerland in company with the famed poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Previously performed at:
- 18 Mar 2022: The Oxford Lieder Young Artist Programme Audition Recitals (Day Two - Pa...
- 19 Oct 2021: 75. Ilker Arcayürek: The Path of Life
- 19 Oct 2021: 73. Ilker Arcayürek: The Path of Life (first performance)
- 13 Oct 2021: 35. Dietrich Henschel: Schubert: Songs of the Sea
- 12 Oct 2021: 27. Dietrich Henschel: Schubert: Songs of the Sea (first performance)
- 31 Mar 2020: Schubert, Fauré and Quilter: Klemens Sander & Sholto Kynoch
- 23 Oct 2017: Mastercourse Day One