[ConorMacNessa]

Indeed! All those lieder and all of them good! An incredible outpouring of work in such a short life.

I worked on several of his - "An Sylvia" of course - "Staendchen" "Ave Maria" and others. Never met a song of his that I didn't like!



Where are the survivors of the massacre at Benghazi? The silence of the Obama Regime on this question is deafening!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

Get all 37 disks of the Hyperion Schubert Edition. Each disk is organized on one topic and is set up like a recital. You can see Schubert at work on his factory floor and discover some wonderful songs that don't get performed all that often.

The Schlegel brothers had translated Shakespeare in the early 1800's, keeping his meter and rhymes intact, even to effectively translating his bawdy Renaissance word play into German. The readers of the time encountered Shakespeare not as an old master, but as a modern writer, and they set off a Shakespeare boom. Schubert's settings of the Schlegel's Shakespeare was intended, he hoped, to be sung also in English to give him a foothold in the English speaking world. He didn't live long enough to get his wish.