Credits:

Clara Osowski

Description:

This album brings together 19 songs written by Schubert over the 13 years leading up to the end of his life, loosely grouped around scenic imagery such as lakes, the moon, stars, flowers, and birds. It is not merely a collection of famous songs; rather, it is characterized by its composition as a continuous poetic flow in which the changing seasons of nature resonate with human emotions. Clara Osowski makes full use of the rich tonal palette of her mezzo-soprano voice to delicately portray the nuances of light and shadow characteristic of Schuberts music.Clara Osowski is an accomplished mezzo-soprano who won the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert songs at the Wigmore Hall/Korn Foundation International Art Song Competition; this album marks her solo debut recording. Her collaborator, Timothy Lovelace, is also a master of art song accompaniment, delicately supporting th