The Shakespeare of song: Graham Johnson on Schubert
Graham Johnson, the acclaimed Lied accompanist, shares a little of what he has learned from a lifetime with the songs of Franz Schubert.
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Graham Johnson, the acclaimed Lied accompanist, shares a little of what he has learned from a lifetime with the songs of Franz Schubert.
In German, they’re known as lieder. In French they’re mélodies. In English, they get the rather grandiose title of ‘art song’, to distinguish them from popular vocal music and folksong.
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