The Magic in Schubert’s Songs

New York Review of Books ^ | April 2, 2015 | Ian Bostridge

[onedoug]

You said it. I have a version with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Beautiful.

[AnAmericanMother]

I see (or hear) what you mean (does that mean that Wagner was crazy? I've often suspected it.)

I'm curious as to where and how the Lied as a form started. In form, and structure, and execution, it is so different from the chanson and madrigal with which I am more familiar (I am firmly backward-looking. Mahler is an anomaly.)

[crusty old prospector]

Schubert is in my Top 5 as I am more of a “K” Man than a “D” Man.

[mojito]

Below is a link to 21 Schubert lieder performed by the author of this piece, Ian Bostridge, and the pianist Julian Drake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHIZqeiKfo

[Publius]

It started with Mozart. After him, a host of minor composers from northern German lands set poetry to music, but they were second raters. It was Schubert, under the tutelage of Salieri, who added an Italian style to the German lied.

[AnAmericanMother]

Thanks. That makes sense. Mozart has a good deal of Italian in him, too.

[COBOL2Java]

Thank you! That was beautiful.