Subtle Touches 'Die schöne Müllerin' - heard by ROBERT ANDERSON '... a memorable performance.'

A main challenge of this first Schubert song cycle is the fact that nine of the twenty songs are strophic. However varied the verse of successive stanzas, the music remains obstinately the same. The singer's task is therefore somehow to shade the vocal quality so as to give the impression of a renewed freshness within much repetition...

FRANZ SCHUBERT