Florian Boesch - Der Wanderer (CD)

Florian Boesch possesses a sensuously attractive baritone voice, first-rate diction and remarkable acting ability. Following on his acclaimed album of Loewe songs, Boesch is joined again by Roger Vignoles for an album of Schubert Lieder. Der Wanderer focuses on the composer's darker songs. They encapsulate a recurrent theme of German Romantic art: that of the rootless outsider. It is the world of Goethe's mysterious Harper and Mignon, and of the solitary, silhouetted figures in the darker landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich. In music it found it's supreme expression, not only in Schubert's Winterreise but in these many individual 'wandering' songs: some grimly resigned, some serenely contemplative, others imbued with a sense of physical and spiritual isolation and longing for an ultimately unattainable 'otherness.'

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Der Wanderer D489 D493 [5'23]
2. Der Wanderer D649 [2'24]
3. Der Wanderer An Den Mond D870 [2'25]
4. Aus Heliopolis I D753 [3'09]
5. Aus Heliopolis II D754 [2'14]
6. Auf Der Donau D553 [2'56]
7. Auf Der Bruck D853 [3'32]
8. Der Schiffer D536 [2'03]
9. Das Heimweh D456 [2'55]
10. Der Kreuzzug D932 [2'45]
11. Abschied D475 [5'07]
12. Wandrers Nachtlied I D224 [1'43]
13. Wandrers Nachtlied II D768 [2'02]
14. Herbst D945 [3'46]
15. Meeres Stille D216 [2'23]
16. Der Pilgrim D794 [4'38]
17. Die Götter Griechenlands D677 [4'24]
18. Im Walde Waldesnacht D708 [6'53]
19. Lied Die Mutter Erde D788 [4'03]