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Sarah Walker presents a performance of Schubert's final song-cycle, Schwanengesang or ‘Swan-Song’, given at last year's Vilabertran Festival by rising star baritone Andrè Schuen with pianist Daniel Heide.

The cycle was published after Schubert's death and it was publisher rather than composer who decided upon the marketable nickname. The cycle sets poems by three contemporary writers - Rellstab, Heine and Seidl - and the tone of the cycle overall is more varied than the name would have us believe.

Schubert: Schwanengesang, D.957
Andrè Schuen, baritone
Daniel Heide, piano