This recording is the first volume of the Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition, an extensive selection of lieder accompanied by distinguished pianists, with booklet notes by Christophe Ghristi: ‘Schubert, in his lieder, recalls us to our condition as short-lived wanderers. A solitary voice sings of its torments and desires, accompanied only by that equally solitary instrument, the eminently self-sufficient piano. Here is no theatre but the echo, at last perceptible, of our inner depths, where silence reigns, where all is grave and nothing lies to us.’
· Fahrt zum Hades D.526 (4'49)
· Freiwilliges Versinken D.700 (3'44)
· Das Weinen D.926 (4'21)
· Des Fischers Liebesglück D.933 (7'16)
· Der Winterabend D.938 (7'01)
· Memnon D.541 (4'11)
· Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren D.360 (3'00)
· Der Schiffer D.536 (1'54)
· Sehnsucht D.636 (4'10)
· Der Jüngling am Bache D.638 (4'53)
· An Emma D.113 (2'37)
· Der Pilgrim D.794 (4'32)
· Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D.583 (3'24)
· Hoffnung D.295 (1'30)
· Grenzen der Menschenheit D.716 (7'35)