This volume of our Schubert Edition is devoted to songs written in the last years of the composers life and contains some of his greatest, though not necessarily best-known Lieder. The two immortal songs in this volume, universally known and loved, are Lachen und Weinen and Du bist die Ruh, from 1822 and 1823 respectively. But other masterpiece are here tooSchwestergruss, Dass die hier gewesen, and Totengrbers Heimweheas well as a clutch of rare songs and partsongs. Again we have a stellar line-up of singers including Philip Langridge and Christopher Maltman. All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Songs of Franz Schubert: This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed (The Guardian).

Artists

Lynne Dawson, Geraldine McGreevy, Patricia Rozario, Lorna Anderson (sopranos), Catherine Denley, Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contraltos), John Mark Ainsley, Philip Langridge, Ian Bostridge, Jamie Macdougall, Daniel Norman, Toby Spence (tenors), Thomas Hampson, Maarten Koningsberger, Christopher Maltman, Simon Keenlyside, Stephan Loges (baritones), Neal Davies (bass) Graham Johnson (piano)

The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton