Schubert: The Complete Song Texts - Schubert: The Complete Song Texts

This book presents in full over seven hundred texts set�whether as solo song, part song or ensemble�by the undisputed master of the German lied.Conceived to accompany Hyperion Records� forty-disc collection Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs, this invaluable resource provides English translations by Richard Wigmore alongside chronologies of Schubert�s life and an introduction to the recordings by Graham Johnson.Comprehensive indexes�by title, alternative title, poet and translator, within the context of the unique chronological presentation of the songs�provide reader, listener and scholar alike with a window into Schubert�s compositional journey from the earliest songs of 1810 through to the final masterpieces of 1828.The recordings include three additional discs of songs by Schubert�s friends and contemporaries�eighty-one settings by forty composers who lived and worked during Schubert�s lifetime. Many of these songs share their texts with Schubert�s own lieder. Some of them were used by Schubert as models for his own more famous settings while others respond to his mastery; all are cross-referenced.448 pages (210x142mm), 258,096 wordsComplete song texts with English translations by Richard WigmoreIntroduction to the recordings by Graham Johnson (English, Fran�ais, Deutsch)Chronologies of Schubert�s life by Graham JohnsonComprehensive indexes