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Schwind was in love with one of the daughters of the Hönig family and badly wanted to impress her parents, but Schubert was less than co-operative as a companion during an expedition to accomplish this. On 7 January a letter from Schwind to Schober (living in Breslau at the time, attempting to pursue the life of an actor) details some of the problems of dealing with Schubert in social situations.

At this point Bauernfeld, new to the circle, had met the composer only once (in 1822) but after playing piano duets together he was soon to exchange the brotherly ‘Du’ form with him, and drink to friendship. Thus we are introduced to the circle around Franz Schubert which, due to the absence abroad of Franz von Schober and another artist, Leopold Kupelwieser, is different from earlier years. Schwind was already in the habit of sketching his friends.

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The Three Kings in fancy dress played dice in full regalia, and Bauernfeld distributed poems. It concerns a Twelfth Night party at the home of the painter Moritz von Schwind. The first entry for 1825 in Deutsch’s Documentary Biography is from Eduard von Bauernfeld’s diary.

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The moving ‘Abschied von der Erde’ (Farewell to the World), spoken by Richard Jackson, closes the programme.Īll of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Songs of Franz Schubert: ‘This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed’ ( The Guardian). Other highlights include ‘Nachthelle’ sung by John Mark Ainsley with the Chorale, and Christine Schäfer’s radiant singing of Schubert’s loveliest lullaby, Wiegenlied.

John Mark Ainsley sings ‘An Silvia’ Christine Schäfer ‘Hark, hark, the lark’. The four settings D877 from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister are given complete the first is a duet sung by Christine Schäfer and John Mark Ainsley, the other three Mignon songs by Christine Schäfer alone. Volume 26 of our Schubert Edition presents a sequence of music which might have been heard at an 1826 Schubertiad and includes songs, ensemble pieces and Schubert’s only melodrama.