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Schubert in English: Swansong
Sir John Tomlinson judge; Christopher Glynn piano
Date
Sun 11 Dec 2016, 3.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Sir John Tomlinsonjudge
  • Christopher Glynnpiano

Programme

  • Franz Schubert
    1797-1828
      • Schwanengesang D957
        :
      • world première of new English translation

Overview

Schubert’s late settings of poems by Rellstab, Heineand Seidl, published posthumously as his ‘Swansong’,include the last of his 600-plus songs.

The completecycle is performed here in Jeremy Sams’s newEnglish translation by Sir John Tomlinson, amongthe greatest singers of his generation.

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