The Hyperion Schubert Edition 19 - Complete Songs / Felicity Lott
Felicity Lott's contribution to Hyperion's complete Schubert song edition includes wonderfully sensitive and poetic renderings of the twoSuleikasongs, part of a larger program that seems to be arranged around images of flowers and water. Of course, there's no shortage of either in German Romantic poetry, and Schubert never loses his ability to catch the mood of his poems with just a few bars of introductory music. Graham Johnson's accompaniments match the delicacy of much of the texts.--David Hurwitz