Schubert: The Complete Songs, Vol. 17 Lucia Popp

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It's not that 1816 was a bad year for Schubert songs -- that year has its share of masterpieces. It's that 1816 was a prolific year for Schubert -- that year he produced more songs than in the whole last three years of his life. And as with any sufficiently large oeuvre, there will be peaks and valleys. Unfortunately, many of those valleys are on this volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition. Fortunately, Johnson engaged soprano Lucia Popp to traverse those valleys with him, and the result is a disc of performances so superb, so moving, so thrilling, and so elevated that one never notices that one is in a valley. How Popp does it is a mystery. Of course, she has a wonderful voice, a voice of clarity and grace and seemingly effortless technique. And, of course, she is a magnificent interpreter, a singer who can turn a phrase so that it shimmers, who can deliver a melody so that it shines. But how all of this adds up to performances of exquisite ecstasy and transcendent beauty of songs that are not among the most exquisite and transcendent is still a mystery. What is not a mystery is the supremely high quality of Johnson's accompaniments and the supremely high quality of his liner notes. This is another triumphant volume in the Schubert edition. James Leonard, All Music Guide



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