Schwanengesang lieder

- The long-awaited performance on CD of Schubert's Schwanengesang cycle with the great Michael Schopper!

- No other performance on CD of these great Schubert Lieder can possible be closer to Schubert's own performance and sound ideals than this one. 

- Jos van Immerseel plays the famous Graf Fortepiano from 1826, from the collection of the Museum Vleeshuis in Antwerp, where thi recording was made. This Fortepiano is internationally considered as the most beautiful Fortepiano in existence!

- In this recording the Lied Herbst, D. 945 has been incorporated into the Schwanengesang cycle, because it is certain that Schubert intended this song also for the cycle, but his untimely death prevented him from overseeing the final publication himself

- The rare beauty of the piano, the perfect balance between voice and piano and the masterful interpretations from both Michael Schopper and Jos van Immerseel will undoubtedly make this the performance that will head the list of all available CD versions of Schwanengesang!

- As always on Globe, full texts and translations are included in the beautiful 24 page booklet. 

Michael Schopper is considered to be one of the most important interpreters of baroque music today. He has performed with all the reputed baroque orchestras and has worked regularly with Musica Antique Köln/Reinhard Goebel, Ton Koopman and René Jabobs. He has given concerts and tours throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel and Japan. He has been involved in opera productions and radio broadcasts for many European stations and has made a great number of recordings. Jos van Immerseel studied piano, organ and hapsichord at the Antwerp Royal Flemish Music Conservatory. Already in 1977 he made his first recordings on a fortepiano. For CBS, Accent, EMI and Harmonia Mundi he made a great number of recordings. For Globe he recorded his own Walter/Clarke fortepiano works by Haydn and Mozart (GLO 5019) and Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Hein Meens (GLO 5022).