15 SCHUBERT 1828:I [PADMORE NEWBY MIDDLETON]

Schubert: Schwanengesang

Mark Padmore, tenor
James Newby, baritone
Joseph Middleton, piano

Schwanengesang is not a song cycle like Winterreise, say, but more of a gathering together of his last songs. He set verse by two poets ranging from humorous to poignant – a reminder that though these may be Schubert’s ‘swan songs’ he was a young man who should have enjoyed decades more of life and music. We have the luxury of not one but two wonderful singers to perform them – quite who will do what will be agreed by them – and a matchless pianist in Joseph Middleton.