#4170: Music Inspired by Franz Schubert

For this New Sounds, hear music based on, or inspired by Franz Schubert’s songs and song cycles. Hear a cover of Kraftwerk’s song, “Franz Schubert“ from English composer Arthur Jeffes, who leads the band Penguin Café. Then, layers of clubby electronics and keyboards support delicate harp, violin and cello melodies in an arrangement of Schubert’s Schwanengesang (“Swan Song”) by Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra.

Listen to a preview of Douglas Cuomo’s “Savage Winter,” a reimagining of Wilhelm Müller’s poetry cycle Winterreise in a multimedia one-act music theater piece. These same poems by Wilhem Müller were most famously set by Franz Schubert over 200 years ago and tell a cold, dark story of a lovelorn man wandering through a winter landscape, inspiring bleak and beautiful music. Listen to selections of “Savage Winter” in the English translation for voice, piano, guitar, amplified trumpet, and electronics. Plus, some of Franz Schubert’s original songs from various cycles as well. - Caryn Havlik

ARTIST: Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
WORK: Schubert: Am Fenster (At the Window) [:45]
RECORDING: Schubert: Abendbilder / Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber
SOURCE: Rca Victor Red Seal  #1146226
INFO: Available at Archiv Music

ARTIST: Wolfgang Mitterer, Georg Nigl
WORK: Am Fenster [:45]
RECORDING: Im Sturm, after Schubert
SOURCE: Col Legno WWE 1CD 20278
INFO: col-legno.com

ARTIST: Penguin Cafe
WORK: Ralf Hütter (Kraftwerk): Franz Schubert [5:46]
RECORDING: The Imperfect Sea
SOURCE: Erased Tapes ERATP097
INFO: erasedtapes.com

ARTIST: Tony Boutté, tenor; Alan Johnson, piano;  Frank London, trumpet; Douglas Cuomo, guitar
WORK: Douglas Cuomo: Savage Winter, Part III "frozen tears" [4:20]
RECORDING: Savage Winter
SOURCE: This performance not yet commercially available. 
INFO: Courtesy of BAM

ARTIST: Tony Boutté, tenor; Alan Johnson, piano;  Frank London, trumpet; Douglas Cuomo, guitar
WORK: Douglas Cuomo: Savage Winter, Part 19, "courage" [5:12]
RECORDING: Savage Winter
SOURCE: This performance not yet commercially available. 
INFO: Courtesy of BAM

ARTIST: Andreas Schmidt, tenor; Rudolf Jansen, piano
WORK: Franz Schubert: Winterreisse, Der Leiermann ("The Hurdy Gurdy Man") [3:40]
RECORDING: In Bruges OST Soundtrack
SOURCE: Also available on DG 435384 
INFO: Available at Arkiv Music

ARTIST: Tony Boutté, tenor; Alan Johnson, piano;  Frank London, trumpet; Douglas Cuomo, guitar
WORK: Douglas Cuomo: Savage Winter, Der Leiermann ("The Hurdy Gurdy Man")  [3:51]
RECORDING: Savage Winter
SOURCE: This performance not yet commercially available. 
INFO: Courtesy of BAM

ARTIST: Ian Bostridge, tenor; Antonio Pappano, piano
WORK: Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang ("Swan Song": Standchen ("Serenade") [2:00]
RECORDING: Schubert Song Cycles | Ian Bostridge
SOURCE: Warner Classics 620418
INFO: Available at Arkiv Music 

ARTIST: Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra
WORK: Standchen (Schubert) [5:54]
RECORDING: Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra
SOURCE: Vinyl Factory VF 204CD
INFO: katesimko.com

ARTIST: Wolfgang Mitterer, Georg Nigl
WORK: Am Fenster [3:56]
RECORDING: Im Sturm, after Schubert
SOURCE: Col Legno WWE 1CD 20278
INFO: col-legno.com

ARTIST: Nick Didkovsky
WORK: Impromptu in Eb [4:37]
RECORDING: The Alternative Schubertiade
SOURCE: New World / CRI 809
INFO: newworldrecords.org

ARTIST: Roger Kleier
WORK: Sighted Sub, Sank Same [2:31]
RECORDING: The Alternative Schubertiade
SOURCE: New World / CRI 809
INFO: newworldrecords.org