Schubert: Schwanengesang Ian Bostridge & Lars Vogt

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Schwanengesang, D 957:
• 1 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 1, Liebesbotschaft 02:49
• 2 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 2, Kriegers Ahnung 05:01
• 3 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 3, Frühlings-sehnsucht 03:20
• 4 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 4, Ständchen 03:34
• 5 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 5, Aufenthalt 02:38
• 6 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 6, In der Ferne 06:07
• 7 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 7, Abschied 04:22
• 8 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 8, Der Atlas 02:10
• 9 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 9, Ihr Bild 02:59
• 10 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 10, Das Fischermädchen 02:01
• 11 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 11, Die Stadt 03:10
• 12 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 12, Am Meer 04:33
• 13 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 13, Der Doppelgänger 04:25
• 14 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D 957: No. 14, Die Taubenpost 03:55
• Einsamkeit, D 620:
• 15 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: I. Gib mir die Fülle der Einsamkeit! 03:48
• 16 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: Ii. Gib mir die Fülle der Tätigkeit 02:23
• 17 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: Iii. Gib mir das Glück der Geselligkeit 03:11
• 18 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: Iv. Gib mir die Fülle der Seligkeit 02:44
• 19 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: V. Gib mir die Fülle der Düsterkeit 02:49
• 20 Schubert: Einsamkeit, D 620: Vi. Gib mir die Weihe der Einsamkeit 03:15
• Total Runtime 01:09:14

Info for Schubert: Schwanengesang

Desolate, but Ultimately Consoling Swansong: Tenor Ian Bostridge completes his Pentatone trilogy of Schubert song cycles with a rendition of Schwanengesang, together with the renowned pianist Lars Vogt. Schwanengesang was compiled and published after Schubert’s death, and the pieces are literally among his swansongs. Ranging from the romantic ‘Ständchen’ to the gloomy ‘Der Doppelgänger’, these lieder are all infused with a deep sense of melancholia and longing. Just like Winterreise, they are most suited for mature interpreters, both vocally and in terms of life experience, and this recording captures Bostridge’s ripened interpretation, enhanced by Vogt’s masterful playing. Schwanengesangis coupled with the extensive song Einsamkeit (Loneliness), which further adds to the desolate, but ultimately consoling character of the album. Pentatone is very grateful that Vogt managed to make this recording despite a serious medical condition. Sadly, he eventually did not live to see the album’s release.

Ian Bostridge, tenor
Lars Vogt, piano

Ian Bostridge
CBE has made regular appearances at the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Schwarzenberg and Aldeburgh festivals. He has had residencies at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall New York, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie Luxembourg, London’s Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall. In 2018 Ian began an auspicious Artistic Residency with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the first of its kind for the ensemble.

His operatic appearances have included Aschenbach Death in Venice for the Deutsche Oper, Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for the Teatro alla Scala, Handel’s Jeptha for Opéra National de Paris, Lysander A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera Australia and Edinburgh Festival, Nerone L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Tom Rakewell and Male Chorus The Rape of Lucretia for the Bayerische Staatsoper, Don Ottavio Don Giovanni for the Wiener Staatsoper, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, Aschenbach and Jupiter Semele for the English National Opera, Peter Quint, Don Ottavio and Caliban The Tempest for the Royal Opera House and Madwoman Curlew River in the Netia Jones’s staging for the London Barbican which was also seen in New York and on the west coast of America.

Highlights in the 21/22 season include Britten’s War Requiem with Kent Nagano and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Konzertchor Darmstadt and the Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Pappano, Schwanengesang at the Wigmore Hall and Des Knaben Wunderhorn for Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, both with Lars Vogt, Winterreise with Pappano at the Bayerische Staatsoper and with Thomas Adès for Auditori de Barcelona, Les Illuminations with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra della Toscana and a return to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with Cappella Neapolitana. This season also sees European tours with Europa Galante of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and The Seasons with the Orchestra of 18th century, a US tour with Basel Chamber Orchestra, The Folly of Desire at the MITO and Verbier, a world premiere of a new commission by James MacMillan with the London Symphony Orchestra for the WW1 centenary, recordings of the major Schubert song cycles live at the Wigmore Hall with pianists Lars Vogt and Thomas Adès, the release of his latest album on the Pentatone label as well as collaborations with Angela Hewitt and long-standing duo partner, Julius Drake.

Future highlights include Britten’s War Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra cond. Pappano, Des Knaben Wunderhorn for Orchestre de Chambre de Paris with Lars Vogt, Winterreise with Pappano at the Bayerische Staatsoper, and Les Illuminations with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. 21/22 also sees European tours with Europa Galante of Monteverdi’s Orfeo and The Seasons with the Orchestra of 18th as well as collaborations with Angela Hewitt and long-standing duo partner, Julius Drake.

Lars Vogt
has established himself as one of the leading musicians of our time. Born in the German town of Düren in 1970, he first came to public attention when he won second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition and has enjoyed a varied career for over thirty years. His versatility as an artist ranges from the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, to the romantics Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, through to 20th Century works such as the dazzling Lutosławski concerto.

In addition to his high-profile career as a pianist, Lars Vogt appears regularly as a conductor and took up the mantle of Music Director of Orchestre de chambre de Paris in July 2020. In the 2021/22 season he will curate his own series with the orchestra in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Pierre Boulez Salle, as well as take the orchestra on tour. He also continues his relationship with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS), now as a Principal Artistic Partner, following a very successful five-year tenure as Music Director. With the RNS he developed a strong international profile with concerts in Amsterdam, Vienna, Budapest and Istanbul, and regular visits to French and German summer festivals.

This season, Lars also features as Artist in Residence with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern both as conductor and pianist, and concerto engagements include the Concertgebouworkest and St Louis Symphony and hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt orchestras.

Previous conducting collaborations include Zürcher Kammerorchester, Camerata Salzburg, Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Sydney, Singapore and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. In May 2019 he undertook a highly acclaimed tour of Germany and France leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra with concerts in Berlin, Frankfurt and Paris.

During his prestigious career Lars has played with many of the world’s great orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski and Robin Ticciati. His special relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker has continued with regular collaborations following his appointment as their first ever “Pianist in Residence” in the 2003/04 season.

Lars enjoys a high profile as a chamber musician and in June 1998 he founded his own chamber festival in the village of Heimbach near Cologne. Known as Spannungen, the concerts take place in an art-nouveau hydro-electric power station. Its huge success has been marked by the release of several live recordings on the CAvi and EMI labels. In addition to Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars has enjoyed regular partnerships with colleagues such as Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Bostridge and Julian Pregardian and collaborates with actor Klaus-Maria Brandauer and comedian Konrad Beikircher.

An exponent of contemporary music, Lars works regularly with high-profile composers and has premiered works by Thomas Larcher, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Kryštof Mařatka and Volker David Kirchner.

A prolific recording artist, Lars works closely with the label Ondine, with whom solo releases have included his OPUS KLASSIK 2021 Award winning release of works by Janáček, and Bach’s Goldberg Variations which had unprecedented success in download charts. His orchestral recordings for Ondine with the Royal Northern Sinfonia of the complete Beethoven and Brahms concertos directed from the keyboard received wide critical acclaim. Chamber collaborations feature prominently in Lars’ discography and include Brahms, Mozart and Schumann sonatas with Christian Tetzlaff, as well as the GRAMMY nominated Brahms’ piano trios with Tanja Tetzlaff. In earlier years as an EMI recording artist, Lars made over ten discs with the label including with the Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle.

A passionate advocate of making music an essential life force in the community, in 2005 Lars established a major educational programme Rhapsody in School which brings his colleagues to schools across Germany and Austria, thereby connecting children with inspiring world-class musicians. He is also an accomplished and enthusiastic teacher and in 2013 was appointed Professor of Piano at the Hannover Conservatory of Music, succeeding Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, his former teacher and close friend. Lars lives in Nuremberg with his wife, the violinist Anna Reszniak, and his family.

Booklet for Schubert: Schwanengesang