Heft 03 / Juli 2017

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In Search of a Lost Place: The Schubert Explorations of the Singer Julian Prégardien – Although one often hears laments about a supposed crisis of the traditional Lieder recital, the Lied genre is actually receiving a particular amount of tension at present. A young generation of singers are making the songs their own, below the threshold of an institutionalized performance pose that is considered exclusive. This results in astutely programmed festivals and concert series; standardized recitals are receding behind individual concept albums. The singer Julian Prégardien, who thinks in terms of historically informed performance practice, stands out with two special Schubert projects: he has released a CD entitled Schubertiade, which imagines Schubert’s songs in their context prior to the invention of the Lieder recital. The focus is not a historicizing reconstruction, but rather an imaginary place in which the songs are brought to life under both their past and present conditions. A second project creates a dialogue between different versions of Schubert’s Winterreise. As a medium for this dialogue, Prégardien has installed a web platform where he also plans to create a »digital salon«.

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