Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 Peter Mattei & Lars David Nilsson

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 1 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 1, Gute Nacht 05:34
• 2 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 2, Die Wetterfahne 01:36
• 3 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 3, Gefror'ne Tränen 02:19
• 4 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 4, Erstarrung 02:45
• 5 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 5, Der Lindenbaum 04:44
• 6 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 6, Wasserflut 04:04
• 7 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 7, Auf dem Flusse 03:09
• 8 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 8, Rückblick 02:04
• 9 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 9, Irrlicht 02:37
• 10 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 10, Rast 02:58
• 11 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 11, Frühlingstraum 03:44
• 12 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 12, Einsamkeit 02:30
• 13 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 13, Die Post 01:57
• 14 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 14, Der greise Kopf 02:55
• 15 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 15, Die Krähe 02:13
• 16 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung 01:47
• 17 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 17, Im Dorfe 03:01
• 18 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen 00:51
• 19 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 19, Täuschung 01:16
• 20 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 20, Der Wegweiser 03:59
• 21 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 21, Das Wirtshaus 04:04
• 22 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 22, Mut 01:15
• 23 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 23, Die Nebensonnen 02:37
• 24 Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 24, Der Leiermann 03:25
• Total Runtime 01:07:24

Info for Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911

Peter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the world’s leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On the present release he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon: the traveller in Schubert’s Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Müller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Müller’s texts revolve around a young man who after being rejected leaves his village and heads into the desolate, snowy countryside. In the course of the cycle he experiences loss and an aching loneliness interrupted by fleeting glimpses of hope, but ultimately the landscape through which he is moving is colored by alienation and despair. Müller died at thirty-two years old in 1827, the very year in which Winterreise was composed – and Schubert himself died the following year, still making revisions to the last of the songs while on his deathbed. When Schubert invited his closest friends to a gathering in order to listen to the cycle he called the songs ‘gruesome’, and according to one witness the audience was shocked by their sombre mood. In this recording, Mattei brings all his interpretive skills to bear. He is supported by the piano of Lars David Nilsson, which reinforces the different moods and characters of the twenty-four songs and often assumes the role of a narrator, alongside the singer.

Peter Mattei, baritone
Lars David Nilsson, piano

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