Schubert Among Friends

Schubert Among Friends is a brilliant recreation of what a musical evening with Schubert would have been like. The CD features many of the composer's best loved songs and piano music, performed by four internationally acclaimed Canadian singers and two pianists renowned for their sensitive interpretations of Schubert's music.

This Schubert repertoire centres around the theme of 'connection' in several forms: love and friendship, separation and loss, kinship with nature. The songs range from the most light-hearted to some of Schubert's most deeply-felt and expressive music (notably the famous Litanei).

For this recording, Aldeburgh Connection artistic directors and pianists Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata brought together a group of their singer friends to record a Schubertiad, a musical party which was a favourite activity of Schubert's circle.

Gerald Finley sings at the Met, the Paris Opera, Covent Garden and other leading opera houses in roles as diverse as Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin or Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' Dr Atomic. Michael Schade is well-known as one of the world's leading Mozart tenors. Gillian Keith and Colin Ainsworth are outstanding luminaries of the younger generation of Canadian singers, each becoming increasingly busy with operatic and concert appearances in Europe and North America. Catalog: MAR 365