Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2573 | Recorded: 2020, 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2573 | Recorded: 2020, 2021
The last years of Schubert's life were clouded by illness, so thoughts of the afterlife cannot have been far from his mind. For their latest recital for BIS, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present an all-Schubert recital themed around Elysium, the mythical idea of a blessed and happy eternal future, with texts that explore different states of the afterlife by well-known authors such as Goethe, Rückert and Schiller as well as by lesser-known ones.