Classical reviews – Beethoven’s ‘An die ferne Geliebte’/ Schubert’s ‘Schwanengesang’ and Haydn’s String Quartets

Roderick Williams performs the great song cycles of Beethoven and Schubert, while the Leipziger Streichquartett play three of Haydn’s masterpieces. By Michael Church

Haydn’s prolific creativity resulted in an extraordinary succession of masterpieces (Rex Features)

Beethoven: ‘An die ferne Geliebte’​; Schubert: ‘Schwanengesang’

Roderick Williams, baritone; Iain Burnside, piano

(Chandos CHAN 20126)