Schubert contracted syphilis in 1822 and became seriously ill. Schubert's Desolate 'Winter Journey' The song cycle Winterreise stands among the masterpieces in the art of song.

2005 Recorded in St Silas Church, Kentish Town from 13-15 February 2017. EDITORS’ NOTES. 2006 Schubert conjures up harmonic twists and … Future releases include The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen) and The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin).Copyright © 2002-20 Presto Classical Limited.

The Winter Journey that Schubert played and sang that night is a portrait of brokenness.

Some obvious rhymes and perceived instances of padding apart, [Sams's] achievement is considerable. All rights reserved. Schubert: Winter Journey Roderick Williams Classical 2018; Listen on Apple Music. 2006 "Schubert's Winter Journey provides a fascinating insight not just into the song cycle and the mindset of its composer but also that of a leading interpreter."

Review of Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge (Knopf, 2015). The major events of the story are all over before the cycle begins. Schubert: Winter Journey. They do not relate to the complete set of 24 major and minor keys as do Bach’s Preludes and Fugues of the Welltempered Clavier or Chopin’s Préludes.


Roderick Williams (baritone) & Christopher Glynn (piano) Some obvious rhymes and perceived instances of padding apart, [Sams's] achievement is considerable. Everyday low … Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise.
2005 2009 Browse Recorded in St Silas Church, Kentish Town from 13-15 February 2017Roderick Williams (baritone) & Christopher Glynn (piano)Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Winter Journey, D. 911 (Winterreise, Sung in English) Listen on Apple Music. Though the songs are full of the poet’s sadness at being rejected by his beloved, they also explore the poet’s connection to nature and the passing of the seasons. Franz Schubert’s Winter Journey is widely regarded as the greatest of all song cycles for solo voice with piano, being claimed by some to be Schubert’s greatest work.

Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.

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Using Jeremy Sams’s wonderfully communicative translation, Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn serve up Schubert’s great song-cycle Winterreise in English. For You

Based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller and composed by Schubert in 1827, Winter Journey is a story of unrequited love.

Radio Williams invests that liquid voice with deep intelligence and intensity, while Glynn’s contributions are eloquently gauged.Few English-speaking Schubertians sing German as idiomatically as Williams delivers Jeremy Sams’s lucid, poetic version here...The immediacy of the storytelling is immaculate — even diehards should give it a try. Williams invests that liquid voice with deep intelligence and intensity, while Glynn’s contributions...Some obvious rhymes and perceived instances of padding apart, [Sams's] achievement is considerable. He carried on composing though with the same unrelenting rate, writing his beautiful cycle of 24 songs, ‘Die Winterreise’ (The Winter Journey) towards the end of his life.

item 1 Schubert: Winterreise (CD, Virgin) Thomas Allen Winter Journey - Schubert: Winterreise (CD, Virgin) Thomas Allen Winter Journey It tells the story of a wanderer who has been unlucky in love as he sets out on a long and lonely journey through a bleak wintry landscape that mirrors the state of his own inner world. 2013 Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise); Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn; Signum Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 April 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★ ★★★★) Schubert's great song cycle in a highly communicative performance showcasing Jeremy Sams new English translation This disc from Signum Classics follows on from the performances at the Ryedale Festival and the Wigmore Hall … 2005 The cycle takes around 70 minutes to perform and comprises settings of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) that deal with unrequited love, alienation, atheism and the contemplation of suicide. Among musical compositions of the highest order connected with the figure 24, the songs of Winterreise occupy a special place. Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.“We hope this Winter Journey can offer English-speaking listeners a way to experience the story’s sense alongside the music’s sound, with something of the same directness that Schubert surely intended when he sat down at the piano in 1827 and sang these songs for the first time to his friends.”This disc is the first in a series of three English language programmes of Schubert’s song cycles.