"Schwanengesang" Well Sung
HE first seven songs of Schubert’s Schwanengesang — programmed as "Dying Strains’-were given from 1YA the other Wednesday by the baritone Stewart Harvey, with Henry Shirley, pianist. The words of _ these songs are by three different poets -Rellstab, Heine, Seidl-and therefore the sequence is not strictly a song cycle. Yet there is a strong unifying emotional thread running through them and they are as well integrated as The Winter’s Journey or The Miller's Daughter. Schwanengesang was written in the last year of Schubert’s life and is in truth his own swan song. These are great songs by all standards, simple yet supremely beautiful. Stewart Harvey and Henry Shirley gave a fine interpretation. ~ There seemed to be complete understanding both in dynamics and phrasing between voice and piano. It was interesting, by the way, to notice the new beauty invested in the hackneyed "Serenade" placed here in its right setting. ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 14
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151"Schwanengesang" Well Sung New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 14
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