The night and the forest, these are the places where the early Romantics felt at home. The same was true of Franz Schubert, who we know enjoyed leaving Vienna to come to himself in nature. His songs and choral works are therefore teeming with rustling leaves, babbling brooks, singing nightingales and darting fish. But Schubert’s music does more than simply paint nature. As befits a true romantic, his music is chiefly about the emotions that nature evokes in the individual. Ex Tempore (cond. Florian Heyerick) performs several of his most sombre works for male choir.

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