English translations by william mann, used here with permission. Winterreise texts and translations hampsong foundation. Italian swiss radio broadcast performance, locarno, oct. Hermann prey, german baritone who was in 46th year of. Hermann prey, german opera and concert singer born july 11, 1929, berlin, ger. Schubert virtually invented the songcycle as an art form. Finley brings all his considerable dramatic powers to his performanceand all but submerges them under the ice. Winterreise winter journey is a song cycle for voice and piano by franz schubert a setting of. An engaged audience is an important part of the winterreise project. Winterreise, not to mention about the art of translation.
Schuberts winterreise ums university musical society. Each contributes 1 to 3 songs to the final joint concert of schuberts 24song cycle winterreise winter journey. Schuberts winterreise is a masterpiece of despair, astonishing in its bleakness and enthrallingly mesmerizing as the journey continues. What to listen to after schuberts winterreise classical. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Many composers, such as berlioz, liszt, brahms and britten, have composed orchestral versions of individual schubert lieder. Indeed the songs shocked his friends when they first heard them. It has never left him, expecting to take his body as its prey.
Scores at the international music score library project imslp. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at. Swr19012cd by hermann prey, franz schubert, none from amazons classical music store. Franz schubert 17971828 text by johann ludwig wilhelm muller 17941827 becca carter musth 311 form and analysis nagel fall 2011 i. For those who know his work, this set is a musthave. Public domain compositions, and 3 music rights societies. Franz schuberts werke, erste kritisch durchgesehene gesammtausgabe, serie xx. Franz schubert, hermann prey, wolfgang sawallisch schubert. The first to dare to arrange the entire cycle of schuberts crowning work winterreise for chamber ensemble, however, was hans zender in the last years of the 20th century. Denon friedricheberthalle, hamburgharburg, 36 april 1984 piano. Winterreise recordings sorted on the year of recording. The expansive possibilities of schuberts winterreise. Translations from the booklet of thomas hampsons recording of winterreise emiwarner classics, 1997 1. The voice by then really sounded old, too old for the protagonist of schuberts cycle, and i didnt hear any new insights into the cycle which by then he had sung nearly 100 times in public or for the microphone.
Winterreise winter journey is a song cycle for voice and piano by franz schubert d. Dieskau occasionally perform the cycle as the entire program on a solo recital and have. Schuberts winterreise song cycle the classical music. Given that the music is littered with examples of gender. Both are clean and persuasive in instrumental terms, but the new recording tends to give the music more space both in real and impressionistic terms, better. The purpose of this website is to make available to the world an english translation of schuberts song cycle winterreise winter journey. For those unfamiliar with hermann prey, this is a wonderful way to get to know this great singer. Im filled with respect and admiration for such a heartonthe.
Bostridges fascination with schuberts winterreise extends beyond the hundreds of performances he has given of the 24song cycle. In 1822 he wrote a first set of 12 poems which was published in urania. Winterreise florian boesch baritone malcolm martineau piano. I own the following recordings of schuberts winterreise.
It is a heartrending portrayal of a winter journey full of misery and woe. Hotters last winterreise on records, as far as i know, is a 1969 cbs sony recording in tokyo with hans dokoupil. My reading of the winterreise, the german composer and conductor wrote, does not. Winterreise is perhaps the greatest song cycle ever written. So its safe to say that i am very familiar with this work. The type of voice was not specified but the words imply a mans winter journey. Since a good recording already exists of this composed interpretation of schuberts songcycle, i will leave aesthetic considerations aside for a moment and compare the two versions. This is the first recording of this work by the late and great hermann prey, and for me, it is his best. In several ways this reading of winterreise moved me more than any other version i have heard. Gerhard husch, fischerdieskau, hermann prey, matthias goerne, and. Returning to the cycle so soon, this time for hyperion, a label not short on discs of schubert songs.
Kirk mcelhearn, musicweb international bonus features. The gramophone award winning partnership of gerald finley and julius drake turns to perhaps the most celebrated songcycle of them all. The book is an engrossing read, but the live performance of a winter journey across a landscape of lost love is not to be missed. But hans zender above dared to reinvent the cycle in the 1990s as a composed interpretation, originally for his ensemble modern, and now in a newer recording for the klangforum wien. When franz schubert first played his song cycle winterreise winter journey for a few friends in 1828, they were amazed by how dark and grim it was, with most of the songs in minor keys. The few translations i have done before winterreise were of technical items or interviews, things that did not require an enormous effort to get things exactly right.
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