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Summary:

“… the emotional balance between voice and piano, so key an element of Schubert’s songs, is very effectively highlighted … This is a recording for listeners who simply want to have Schubert’s unending tunefulness flow over and around them – there is no foundational unifying principle here, and none is needed for anyone content simply to bask in selected elements of the beauty to which the emotional appeal of Schubert’s tunefulness consistently opens the door.” – Mark Estren, Infodad.com

American mezzo Clara Osowski, in partnership with pianist Timothy Lovelace, makes her solo debut recording with 19 landscape-inspired lieder by Franz Schubert, penned during the final years of the composer’s short life.

American mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski sings “from inside the music with unaffected purity and sincerity” (Daily Telegraph). Among her multiple international awards, at the prestigious Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song Competition, she was bestowed the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert lieder.

For her solo debut recording, Clara lends her lush mezzo-soprano to 19 lieder penned by Franz Schubert during the last 13 years of the composer’s all too short life. Landscape abounds in this collection – lakes, rushing streams, the rising moon, stars, flowers, birdsong. True to Schubert’s conception, Clara considers her voice and that of her collaborator, pianist Timothy Lovelace, equal partners.

Tracklist:

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)

1. Rastlose Liebe, D. 138 (1:27)
2. Nachtstück, D. 672 (4:59)
3. An die Leier, D. 737 (4:34)
4. Der Schiffer, D. 536 (2:04)
5. Ganymed, D. 544 (4:13)
6. Am See, D. 746 (1:55)
7. Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 (2:09)
8. Die Sterne, D. 939 (1:57)
9. Seligkeit, D. 433 (3:17)
10. Bei dir allein, D. 866 No. 2 (2:16)
11. Nachtviolen, D. 752 (3:00)
12. Ellens Gesang I, D. 837 (8:24)
13. Ellens Gesang II, D. 838 (3:12)
14. An den Mond, D. 193 (3:03)
15. Erlafsee, D. 586 (3:58)
16. Der Musensohn, D. 764 (2:15)
17. Gondelfahrer, D. 808 (2:15)
18. Geheimes, D. 719 (1:48)
19. Im Fruhling, D. 882 (4:21)

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Timothy Lovelace, piano

Recorded: 13 & 14 January, 2025, Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Recording Producer: Blanton Alspaugh
Recording Engineer: Jacob Steingart
Mixing and mastering engineer: Mark Donahue
Photography: Lorelee Wederstrom
English sung text translations: © 2005 Richard Wigmore
Design & Editorial: WLP London Ltd

℗ & © 2026 Clara Osowski under exclusive licence to Avie Records