Nachtviolen - Schubert: Lieder Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber

• Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Lieder
• 1 An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht, D. 614 08:01
• 2 Hoffnung, D. 295 01:26
• 3 Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid), D. 876 02:41
• 4 Abschied, D. 475 05:09
• 5 Herbst, D. 945 03:34
• 6 Über Wildemann, D. 884 02:21
• 7 Der Wanderer, D. 649 02:23
• 8 Der Wanderer an den Mond, D. 870 02:26
• 9 Der Zwerg, D. 771 04:54
• 10 Abendstern, D. 806 02:08
• 11 Im Walde, D. 843 05:09
• 12 Nach einem Gewitter, D. 561 01:33
• 13 Der Schiffer, D. 694 03:11
• 14 An die Nachtigall, D. 196 01:55
• 15 Totengräber-Weise, D. 869 05:12
• 16 Frühlingsglaube, D. 686 03:16
• 17 Nachtviolen, D. 752 02:35
• 18 Abendlied für die Entfernte, D. 856 05:14
• 19 Wehmut, D. 772 02:24
• 20 Der Strom, D. 565 01:31
• 21 Der Hirt, D. 490 02:17
• 22 Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D. 360 02:47
• 23 Nachtgesang, D. 314 01:40
• 24 Der Sänger am Felsen, D. 482 03:06
• Total Runtime 01:16:53

Info for Nachtviolen - Schubert: Lieder

This album is a great introduction to the deeply absorbing world of Schubert's songs. It features a very personal collection of Schubert songs chosen by Christian Gerhaher, who has performed these songs for many years and has a profound connection to them. The album includes a detailed booklet text with a separate paragraph detailing each song.

Schubert set the verse of over 100 poets to music, composing approximately 650 songs. He selected biblical texts and poetry from classical Greece, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the early Romantic era, the poets including Goethe, Schiller, Shakespeare, Petrarca and Heine as well as his Austrian contemporaries and friends.

“Beautifully judged playing from pianist Gerold Hubersupports the silky lightness of Gerhaher at his most intimate in these 24 songs; though there are flashes of steel beneath the gossamer that are all the more exciting for their sparse deployment.” (The Observer)

“Gerhaher’s outstanding qualities – a heavenly baritone, crisp diction, intelligent address – once again find an echo in Huber’s pianism.” (Financial Times)

“Gerhaher brings his special qualities, the most beautiful lyric baritone voice of any lieder specialist I know, entirely natural and immaculate German diction, and musical and expressive insights that mark him out as one of the greatest lieder singers of any age...the entire programme is vintage Schubert and vintage Gerhaher.” (Sunday Times)

“gently beautiful and deeply rewarding...Gerhaher simply lets the music flow through him, his voice its unassuming servant. The pitching is immaculate, the breath control so easeful as to be imperceptible. He seems incapable of making an ugly sound.” (The Telegraph)

“With his lyric high baritone at its freest, Gerhaher has the uncommon gift of making everything alive, specific, while always sounding natural...a superlative recital by a singer who for vocal beauty, poetic insight and expressive immediacy is surely unsurpassed in Lieder today.” (Gramophone Magazine)

“One of the most symbiotic partnerships in chamber music...Friends since childhood, they have performed lieder since they were teenagers. This recording of works by Schubert is a marvel of the fusion of text and melody, suffused with the beauty of Mr. Gerhaher’s mellow, smooth timbre.” (New York Times)

Christian Gerhaher, baritone
Gerold Huber, piano

Christian Gerhaher
first completed his medical studies in Munich. He also studied singing, both privately and as a guest, at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts, as well as in courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Inge Borkh. Opera engagements have taken him to the Frankfurt Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper and the Berlin State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Salzburg Festival. His repertoire currently includes roles such as the Count and Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Amfortas (Parsifal), and the title roles in Orfeo, Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, and Wozzeck. A particular focus of his work is lieder and concert singing. Together with his duo partner, pianist Gerold Huber, he heads the Lied Department at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. In 2015, he was named a Bavarian Kammersänger. In the 2023/24 season, he performed at the Bavarian State Opera as Amfortas and Wolfram, as well as Golaud in the new production of Pelléas et Mélisande, and in a Festival Lieder recital.

Booklet for Nachtviolen - Schubert: Lieder