Schubert Lieder (with orchestra)

Again and again, well-known and lesser-known composers have arranged Franz Schubert's piano lieder for orchestra, for example to facilitate performance in larger settings. For this new album, baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled 19 such arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries. The versions of “An die Musik,” “Im Abendrot,” “Nacht und Träume,” “Prometheus,” and “Erlkönig” recorded here are by Max Reger; Johannes Brahms arranged “Geheimes,” Jacques Offenbach “Ständchen,” and Benjamin Britten “Die Forelle.” Further arrangements are provided by Anton Webern (“Du bist die Ruh,” “Tränenregen,” “Der Wegweiser”), Felix Mottl (“Der Tod und das Mädchen”), Alexander Schmalcz (“Abendstern,” “An Silvia”), and Kurt Gillmann (“Ganymed”).