Schwanengesang D.957
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt D.325
Wer nie sein Brot D.480
An die Turen will ich schleichen D.479
Grenzen der Menschheit D.716
Prometheus D.674

‘inspired and quite unforgettable…I cannot recommend this CD too highly’ Gramophone ‘never , in my experience, has Winterreise sounded bleaker than in this magnificently sombre and vivid account’ The Sunday Times

‘…unquestionably superb’ Guardian

Praise for Florian Boesch’s Winterreise, which was followed by the equally impressive Mullerin, described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘one of the most challenging and provocative new recordings of this cycle – and one of the best performed and recorded’ 5 stars

To complete their survey of the Schubert Song Cycles, Boesch & Martineau arrive at Schwanengesang, the set of 13 songs composed in 1828. These are masterly settings of Rellstab and Heine, and is Schubert at the very peak of his lieder composing prowess. An additional song Die Taubenpost D956a to words by Seidl was included by the publisher. This recording excludes this song. It does however include five Goethe settings dating from 1815 - 1821