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Schubert in English, Vol. 4
Roderick Williams (baritone), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) Signum Classics SIGCD770 (2023)
The series is a project I set up to present Schubert’s songs in English, which hadn’t been done before, or at least not for a long time. It was really about finding new audiences for lieder, because I’m very aware that only a small sub-set of the classicalgoes to song recitals, which is quite a sad thing. So I commissioned Jeremy Sams to create translations of and other Schubert song cycles and started experimenting with performing them – and this series with Signum came out of it.
