Schubert: Winterreise
Britta Schwarz (mezzo), Christine Schornsheim (fortepiano)
A performance with an affecting honesty. Schwarz’s voice itself, though, is likely to prove an acquired taste for many. Plangent, alternately slightly white and hooty, with not much warmth,...
Schubert: Winterreise
Britta Schwarz (mezzo), Christine Schornsheim (fortepiano)
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A performance with an affecting honesty. Schwarz’s voice itself, though, is likely to prove an acquired taste for many. Plangent, alternately slightly white and hooty, with not much warmth,...
About
Die Winterreise, the song cycle based on texts by Wilhelm Müller, is one of Franz Schubert's best-known works. Hardly anyone else could convey the spirit of Romanticism and its guiding principles of longing, alienation and loneliness more accurately and to the point than Schubert, who completed this composition one year before his death. Britta Schwarz and Christine Schornsheim trace these thoughts in their recording on the contemporary fortepiano. At times sensitively reserved, at times stirring and energetic, yet always faithful to the text, the two interpreters succeed in breathing new life into Schubert's famous work of music. The balanced and well thought-out interpretation gives each lied a unique charm and opens up new perspectives for the listener. A must for every Schubert fan!
Contents and tracklist
- Britta Schwarz, Christine Schornsheim (fortepiano)
Awards and reviews
December 2019
A performance with an affecting honesty. Schwarz’s voice itself, though, is likely to prove an acquired taste for many. Plangent, alternately slightly white and hooty, with not much warmth, it’s not a big-sounding instrument. Nor is this conventionally attractive singing, often precluding a traditional intensity of engagement and offering limited variety of tone. The flipside, however, is a hypnotic quality as the cycle progresses
February 2020
the last handful of songs unfolded with merciless inevitability and made the end just as gripping as it always is...There is a lot to admire here
