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a short thread with links to a few of the hundreds of 'An die Musik' videos made in Covid times, following my #ArtSongPlatform paper this morning
#Schubert
#Schubert
Of the relatively few voice-piano in-person renditions: Barbara Hannigan and Alphonse Cémin, just before the French lockdown
Lucas Meachem and Irina Meachem, who have given many living room recitals over the year
Onto two highlights of many self-accompanied renditions: this delightful one by Katherine Broderick, from March https://twitter.com/kat_broderick/status/1241036069082193921?s=20
and of course Sarah Connolly's from June
Onto some transcriptions and arrangements: Daniel Hope and Christoph Israel, as part of the Hope @ Hope series
An arrangement for 14 violas (yay, violas!) performed by the Yale Viola Studio:
Luciano Berio's little known choral orchestration, in a massive split-screen endeavour by the Orchestre de Paris and its choirs
A new year's message of hope from the NDR, involving four of their ensembles, arranged by Wolf Kerscheck and also featuring Brahms...
Another arrangement, choral this time, for the Wiener Singakademie by Tristan Schulze
a masked performance for voices and piano, posted on Thanksgiving, by the young artists of the Washington National Opera
Another here by young artists – a spoken rendition of Schober's poem, in translation, by YCAT artists
And a singing translation by Jeremy Sams, performed beautifully by Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn:
two final, quirky ones: first, Schubert emerging through Aoife O'Donovan and The Jacobsens version of Bob Dylan, 'Not Dark Yet'
and an unaccompanied rendition from Simon Keenlyside at the end of a delightful musical ramble around his Welsh farmland:
There's many more out there, but I think this cross-section speaks to the breadth of ways in which Schubert's song has been transformed over the past almost-year. #ArtSongPlatform
