DESCRIPTION:
Tony Arnold, soprano and Dan Lippel, guitar
from Song Cycle: Franz Schubert Lieder Transcriptions
http://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/song-cycle-franz-schubert-lieder-transcriptions
Works by Franz Schubert (transcriptions by Johann Kaspar Mertz and others)

Recording, editing, and mastering engineer: Ryan Streber
www.oktavenaudio.com
Session Producer for solo guitar works: Ryan Streber
Session producer for vocal works: Marc McAneny
Editing producer: Daniel Lippel
Graphic design and layout: Memo Salazar www.foolfactory.com
All works recorded on Bernhard Kresse's J.A. Stauffer reproduction
www.kresse-gitarren.de/
Recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY, May 15 and 16th, 2010; June 20, 2011

Song Cycle features soprano Tony Arnold and guitarist Daniel Lippel, colleagues in ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), in a collection of transcriptions of Schubert lieder for voice and guitar and solo guitar. These transcriptions, for solo guitar by Schubert's contemporary Johann Kaspar Mertz, and for soprano and guitar based on editions released in Vienna during Schubert's lifetime, are culled together into a "song cycle" tracing a journey through separation, darkness, and renewal. This recording was performed on a copy of a 19th century Stauffer instrument, made by German luthier Bernhard Kresse.