Schubert Lieder Volume 9: Winterreise
Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
For the first 19 of the 24 songs they steer a moderate course...But for the last four songs they take expression to extremes, with devastating effect...There are so many ways of interpreting...
Schubert Lieder Volume 9: Winterreise
Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
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For the first 19 of the 24 songs they steer a moderate course...But for the last four songs they take expression to extremes, with devastating effect...There are so many ways of interpreting...
About
This 'Winterreise' is the long-awaited conclusion to Matthias Goerne’s Schubert Edition, which began in 2008, for harmonia mundi. Here everything is tenser, more urgent, more harrowing. This winter landscape expects no spring to come; nor will the Hurdy-Gurdy Man give any answer. In the intimate atmosphere offered by this recording, still more than in concert, the path to oblivion finds its echo in our innermost selves.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2014
For the first 19 of the 24 songs they steer a moderate course...But for the last four songs they take expression to extremes, with devastating effect...There are so many ways of interpreting this, Schubert's greatest work, that it would be silly to say this was the most impressive...but this one, wonderfully recorded and always beautiful despite its violence, is among the great accounts.
CD Review 6th December 2014
it feels to me like this ought to find a place amongst the great recordings, a chilling, hypnotically compelling performance from a wonderful partnership.
December 2014
[Eschenbach] accompanies this Winterreise with marvellous flexibility, musicality and skill...Both Goerne and Eschenbach produce wonderfully subtle performances...Goerne is such an intelligent singer...This performance takes the listener into the cold landscape…Goerne and Eschenbach sing and play as one.
Audiophile Audition 17th December 2014
Goerne certainly knows his Schubert and now has to be considered one of the best modern interpreters of this music, something of an authority … Overall this is an outstanding issue and a fine conclusion to the series, quite an undertaking, and something that might serve as one’s only collection of Schubert lieder—it’s that good.
