034571280349

Schubert: Winterreise

Gerald Finley, Julius Drake

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA68034

Release Date:  01 March 2014

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571280349

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    The Gramophone-award winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake turns to perhaps the most celebrated song-cycle of them all. Schubert’s Winterreise is a masterpiece of despair, astonishing in its bleakness and enthrallingly mesmerizing as the journey continues. Finley brings all his considerable dramatic powers to his performance—and all but submerges them under the ice.
    Richard Wigmore writes that ‘before Winterreise Schubert had composed individual songs of pathos and despair, even of apocalyptic terror. What was new about the cycle was the spareness and angularity of much of the writing, the work’s sustained godless pessimism and its obsessive exploration of a mind veering between delusion, ironic self-awareness and nihilistic despair. The water music, limpid, turbulent or benedictory, of Schubert’s earlier Muller cycle, Die schone Mullerin, yields in Winterreise to musical emblems of trudging and stumbling, bareness and exhaustion, derangement and frozen, trancelike stillness’.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Gute Nacht [5'50]
      • 2. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Die Wetterfahne [1'54]
      • 3. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Gefrorne Tränen [2'40]
      • 4. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Erstarrung [3'04]
      • 5. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Der Lindenbaum [5'22]
      • 6. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Wasserflut [3'42]
      • 7. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Auf dem Flusse [3'50]
      • 8. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Rückblick [2'14]
      • 9. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Irrlicht [2'26]
      • 10. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Rast [3'31]
      • 11. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Frühlingstraum [4'32]
      • 12. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Einsamkeit [2'52]
      • 13. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Die Post [2'17]
      • 14. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Der greise Kopf [3'06]
      • 15. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Die Krähe [2'05]
      • 16. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Letzte Hoffnung [2'22]
      • 17. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Im Dorfe [3'34]
      • 18. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Der stürmische Morgen [0'53]
      • 19. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Täuschung [1'16]
      • 20. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Der Wegweiser [4'24]
      • 21. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Das Wirtshaus [4'24]
      • 22. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Mut! [1'28]
      • 23. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Die Nebensonnen [3'03]
      • 24. <b>Winterreise</b> D911 | Der Leiermann [3'44]