Schubert: Schwanengesang / Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesange

1	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
2	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
3	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
4	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
5	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
6	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
7	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
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12	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
13	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
14	Schwanengesang (Swan Song
15	Vier ernste Gesänge (4),
16	Vier ernste Gesänge (4),
17	Vier ernste Gesänge (4),
18	Vier ernste Gesänge (4),
Schubert: Schwanengesang / Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesange
1.	Schwanengesang (Swan Song), song cycle for voice & piano, D. 957 49:26
	Composed by Franz Schubert
	Performed by Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen
2.	Vier ernste Gesänge (4), for voice & piano (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121 16:22
	Composed by Johannes Brahms
	Performed by Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen

New York Times

Mr. Quasthoff has a gorgeous, rich voice and a visceral connection to music and words; as you listen to him channel the "Schwanengesang," doors seem to open in your head. His reading of Brahms's "Four Serious Songs" is pretty fine, but the Schubert is in a class by itself. Anne Midgette

Gramophone

With his well-nigh perfect technique, Quasthoff produces his tone throughout the registers with no audible strain, evenly, unfettered. Then his speeds always seem the just ones, phrasing is seamless and long-breathed, the emotions projected from, as it were, within the musical arch he creates... Anyone who wants this discerningly chosen match of works need not hesitate. Alan Blyth