Samuel Hasselhorn

Schubert 200 project: Die Schöne Müllerin

www.schubert200.com

The years 2023-2028 mark 200 years since the five last years of Franz Schubert. This leads up to the 200th anniversary of Schubert’s death in Vienna on 19 November 2028. 

In order to pay homage to this important event, baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz have started a multi-genre international project titled “SCHUBERT 200”. A major focus of this project will be the recording of one CD of Schubert’s songs per year for HARMONIA MUNDI, culminating in the year 2028. Each CD will mirror the Lieder that Schubert wrote exactly 200 years earlier.

The “SCHUBERT 200” project will be aimed at a new, young generation of Lieder enthusiasts. The project goal is to and is discover the extent to which Schubert’s songs are relevant to our lives in the 21st century and how this connection can be made tangible.

Samuel Hasselhorn

Schubert with Joseph Middleton

His debut recording devoted to Schumann offered a brilliant opportunity to discover the name of Samuel Hasselhorn, a young baritone deeply invested in the art of lieder. With his collaborator Joseph Middleton, he now turns to Schubert, in an insightful programme evoking some of the themes dear to the Viennese master of song: nature, night-time, parting, absence, and death. Both essential and less familiar songs are featured side by side in this poignant depiction of profound self-reflection that can rank among the most moving examples of what the Romantic temperament has ever produced.

Samuel Hasselhorn

Schumann CD with Harmonia Mundi

On September 11th, 2020 Harmonia Mundi released Samuel’s first CD together with pianist Joseph Middleton. It is an all Schumann disc which includes his Kerner Lieder, Andersen Lieder and Heine ballads. This CD was also awarded the Prix Caecilia 2020 in Belgium as the best Lieder CD of the year.

Samuel Hasselhorn

With the newest 3D audio recording technique pianist Boris Kusnezow and Samuel Hasselhorn released their first CD – Dichterliebe² together on 12th September 2018! We recorded Schumann’s Dichterliebe plus more Lieder from different composers with the same Heine poems that Robert Schumann already used for his Dichterliebe.