Schubert: Schwanengesang

This is Andreas Bauer Kanabas’ first solo Lieder CD. He made himself rare on the recorded market, however he is worldwide travelling and singing on the major opera houses. His bass voice is a rarity on the Lieder market and shows many different colours in the well known Schubert songs. The first group of songs on texts by Ludwig Rellstab starts out in a relatively carefree, rapturous tone: a mood of spring is in the air. In Frühlingssehnsucht, “swelling desire” is colorfully illustrated by images of nature such as the silvery gurgling brook – an evocation of splendid vitality. But clouds soon darken the horizon: the brook becomes a raging torrent of negative emotions. Euphoria gives way to disappointment. The rapturous attitude is curbed: we hear of farewell, with a clear touch of bitterness. In the next group of settings of texts by Heinrich Heine, the story returns to its onset: now less rapturous, somewhat more aloof, and with even more bitterness at the end. We have chosen to order