I thought of you - Wader sings Schubert

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I thought of you - Wader sings Schubert
Studio album by Hannes Wader

Publication
(s)

1997

Label (s) Plans - Aris

Genre (s)

Chanson / singer-songwriter

Title (number)

17th

running time

53:19

occupation

production

Hannes Wader, Ben Ahrens

Studio (s)

Blue Noise recording studio Hamburg

chronology
Love, Booze, Death - Wader Sings Bellman (1974) I thought of you - Wader sings Schubert Appearance: Hannes Wader (1998)

I thought of you - Wader singt Schubert is an album by the singer and songwriter Hannes Wader from 1997.

Origin / meaning

According to his own statement and those of others, the songwriter had announced this album 20 years earlier, but couldn't find a label that wanted to tackle this project.

Wader says in the booklet that he sees himself as a deeply nostalgic existence and that he rejects the present as a given state that he is forced to live and that he only welcomes the future insofar as it preserves the past, that which he has in the Loves past. In his opinion, this also includes the old songs.

Wader only got to know Schubertlieder when he had already created several dozen of his own songs. He also noticed that they indirectly influenced his writing. He says of Franz Schubert : “ His songs have a magic effect on me that I cannot explain, not because of, but in spite of the traditional way in which singers ... have interpreted Schubert up to now. "

He did not try to sing the songs like Schubert songs, but like his own. In between he even took a year of singing lessons in order to be able to develop the necessary singing technique, without which, according to Wader, these songs would not work.

This album would be Wader's last studio album for four years. It wasn't until the album Wünsche (2001), the first album in 10 songs with original compositions, that the studio continued. In between there were the two live albums appearance: Hannes Wader and Was für eine Nacht , which is a sound document of his summer tour with Konstantin Wecker 2000 (2001).

Track list

  1. The Son of the Muses - 2:01
  2. Serenade - 3:18
  3. The trout - 2:21
  4. In the sunset - 2:58
  5. The hiking - 2:54
  6. The curious one - 2:58
  7. Where to - 2:17
  8. Morning greeting - 3:56
  9. The miller's flowers - 2:58
  10. The miller and the brook - 3:08
  11. The Brook's Lullaby - 5:25
  12. Good night - 5:01
  13. Flood - 3:19
  14. Spring Dream - 3:24
  15. The Post - 2:48
  16. Deception - 1:31
  17. The Leiermann - 3:02

To the titles

Thirteen of the seventeen songs recorded are taken from Schubert's two major song cycles: Die Schöne Müllerin (5–11) and Winterreise (12–17). The last verse of Gute Nacht , the opening song of the Winterreise , is quoted in the title of the album.

Others

  • Hannes Wader was his own producer again and was supported by Ben Ahrens.
  • Recording and mixing, as well as the role of producer, were also taken over by Ben Ahrens.
  • Like many Wader albums, the album was produced in the Blue Noise recording studio in Hamburg.
  • For the first time, Wader refrained from playing guitar himself on one of his albums.
  • The arrangements come from Ralf Illenberger, who also played the guitars on this album. In addition, Eberhard Weber (bass) was brought in.
  • The song An die Musik was also recorded by the songwriter. He found his singing as not good enough and therefore excluded it from the release for this album. He later considered this decision to be wrong. As a replacement, he sang it live on his next tour and released it on the live album appearance: Hannes Wader (1998).