$24.95 – Compact disc / Onyx Classics / ISBN:0880040407720
Schubert: Winterreise
Catalogue # ONYX4077
Florian Boesch’s debut disc on ONYX was the highly acclaimed Schumann Heine Lieder (ONYX4041), and he again teams up with Malcolm Martineau for the journey through the bleak and wintry landscape of Schubert’s Winterreise.
Composed in 1827, work on the settings of Wilhem Muller made Schubert agitated and disturbed according to friends. Indeed the songs shocked his friends when first heard – so powerful is the emotional content of the music that it still has the ability to shock and move the listener. The journey starts with ‘Goodnight’, as our traveller walks away from us into the moonlit snowy landscape. At the end of the cycle ‘The Signpost’ he takes the path to his death.
Schubert: Winterreise D911
Florian Boesch (baritone) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)