Schubert's Winterreise: A Composed Interpretation Allan Clayton, Aurora Orchestra & Nicholas Collon

• Hans Zender (1936 - 2019): Schubert's "Winterreise":
• 1 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 1, Gute Nacht 09:16
• 2 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 2, Die Wetterfahne 01:53
• 3 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen 02:04
• 4 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 4, Erstarrung 03:25
• 5 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 5, Der Lindenbaum 04:37
• 6 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 6, Wasserflut 03:46
• 7 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 7, Auf dem Flusse 04:02
• 8 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 8, Rückblick 01:58
• 9 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 9, Irrlicht 03:07
• 10 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 10, Rast 03:29
• 11 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 11, Frühlingstraum 03:46
• 12 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 12, Einsamkeit 03:53
• 13 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 13, Die Post 04:25
• 14 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 14, Der greise Kopf 02:49
• 15 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 15, Die Krähe 01:44
• 16 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung 01:59
• 17 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 17, Im Dorfe 03:25
• 18 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen 01:10
• 19 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 19, Täuschung 02:50
• 20 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 20, Der Wegweiser 03:46
• 21 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 21, Das Wirtshaus 04:13
• 22 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 22, Mut! 02:56
• 23 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 23, Die Nebensonnen 04:07
• 24 Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise": No. 24, Der Leiermann 06:22
• Total Runtime 01:25:02

Info zu Schubert's Winterreise: A Composed Interpretation

Hans Zenders Neuinterpretation von Schuberts Winterreise verwandelt einen bekannten Klavierzyklus in eine lebendige orchestrale Reise, die Intimität und Intensität miteinander verbindet. Der Tenor Allan Clayton und der Dirigent Nicholas Collon führen das Aurora Orchestra durch eine Landschaft zerbrochener Erinnerungen, in der volkstümliche Einfachheit auf Mahler'sche Erhabenheit und Berg'schen Expressionismus trifft. Zender bewahrt Schuberts Gesangslinie, bereichert jedoch die Klangwelt mit Gitarre, Akkordeon, Melodikas und eindrucksvollen Orchester-Effekten, die Stürme, gefrorene Tränen und flüchtige Träume heraufbeschwören. Diese Interpretation verstärkt die rohe Wahrheit des Zyklus über Liebe, Verlust und Verzweiflung und bietet dem Publikum eine zutiefst moderne, immersive Begegnung mit einem der eindringlichsten Meisterwerke der klassischen Musik.

Allan Clayton, Tenor
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, Dirigent

Allan Clayton
The flexibility and consistency of Allan Clayton’s vocal range, combined with his magnetic stage presence, have led to international acclaim in music from Baroque to contemporary, his breadth demonstrated in recent title roles ranging from Peter Grimes and Hamlet to Faust and Candide, and a discography running from Handel to Dean.

He is in demand at leading opera houses around the world, singing the title role in the US premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Metropolitan Opera, followed by a definitive interpretation of Peter Grimes there and at Teatro Real Madrid, as well as at London’s Royal Opera, where he opened the 2023–24 season in the title role in Jephtha. He returned to the Royal Opera House in February 2025 for Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Festen in the role of Christian, which won him the 2025 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.

Clayton has appeared at the BBC Proms many times since his first visit in 2008, as well as at the Barbican Hall, where recent performances include The Dream of Gerontius and Britten’s Spring Symphony. He performed Schubert’s Winterreise there in a new dramatic staging incorporating the work of Australian painter Fred Williams, which he also toured across Australia and brought to Snape Maltings as part of his artist residency.

He is a frequent visitor to Wigmore Hall and gives lied recitals around the world. Committed to contemporary music, he has sung in the world premieres of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchioand Gerald Barry’s Alice’s Adventures Underground.

Aurora Orchestra
Driven by the belief that orchestral music is for everyone, Aurora Orchestra has established itself as an innovative and boundary-breaking ensemble, creating musical experiences beyond the ordinary.

Under its Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon, Aurora Orchestra has grown since its first concert in 2005 into an established name on the UK and international orchestral scene. Aurora is the pioneer for memorised orchestral performance: it is the first orchestra worldwide to break down physical barriers to music by removing sheet music and stands for large-scale works. Beginning with Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony in 2014, Aurora has since performed many orchestral works in this way, including Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Stravinsky’s The Firebird and The Rite of Spring, as well as commissions by Max Richter and Héloïse Werner.

Over recent years, these memorised performances have developed into cross-genre dramatic and musical explorations that reach deeper under the skin of the music, devised by Aurora’s Creative Director Jane Mitchell. Aurora has collaborated with an exceptional range of artists across different artistic disciplines.

Aurora inspires audiences of all ages and backgrounds to develop a passion for orchestral music. Through Aurora Classroom, its award-winning Creative Learning programme, Aurora regularly offers workshops and storytelling concerts for families, schools and young people, including children with special educational needs and disabilities. Aurora Classroom also encompasses a free pioneering online learning platform for schools, which includes teacher training and a wide range of resources to help teachers deliver music activities in the classroom, including bespoke activities for SEND settings.

In the 2025/6 season Aurora Orchestra continues celebrating its 20th anniversary, with a new season of concerts as Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre and Resident Ensemble at Kings Place, as well as debuts in Berlin Philharmonie and de Doelen, Rotterdam. As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Aurora has launched the Life-Changing Music Campaign, which aims to raise £500,000 to secure its next 10 years.

Nicholas Collon
British conductor Nicholas Collon is recognized for his elegant conducting style, searching musical intellect and inspirational music-making. He is Founder and Principal Conductor of Aurora Orchestra and has been Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony since 2021 (renewed until 2028). He was Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orkest in Den Haag (latterly also Artistic Advisor) 2016-2021, and was Principal Guest of the Gürzenich Orchester from 2017-2022.

With the Finnish Radio Symphony he has toured to the BBC Proms, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and to Germany and Estonia. Their expanding discography together for Ondine includes acclaimed discs of Sibelius, Lutosławski, Adès and Wennäkoski (winning the 2023 Gramophone Award for Best Contemporary Recording), with Richard Strauss, Elgar, Holst, and more Sibelius to come. Their 2024/25 concert season includes Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie and Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps as part of a Paris theme, and works by Finnish-American composer Lara Poe. Every concert is broadcast live on Finnish National TV.

Collon leads Aurora Orchestra at the BBC Proms every year in their hugely popular memorised performances, this year Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, televised live. Aurora are Resident at Kings Place and at the Southbank Centre where they have reinvented the concert format with their ‘Orchestral Theatre’ Series. This season they tour to major German cities, and continue to appear regularly at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Cologne Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and festivals such as Bremen, Rheingau, Schleswig Holstein and Gstaad. They have recorded for Warner, winning the Echo Klassik Award for ‘Klassik Ohne Grenzen’ in 2015, and latterly for Deutsche Grammophon.

Collon debuted with the Dresden Staatskapelle in Spring 2024, and in 24/25 makes his first appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and WDR Symphony, and returns to the DSO Berlin. He regularly conducts orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic (appearing at the BBC Proms with them in his second televised Prom this year), City of Birmingham Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Danish National Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Dresden Philharmonic, and has also guested with Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Minnesota Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe among many others.

Collon has conducted over 250 new works, including the UK or world premieres of works by Unsuk Chin, Brett Dean, Phillip Glass, Colin Matthews, Anna Meredith, Nico Muhly, Olivier Messiaen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Judith Weir, and Du Yun. Opera productions have included Peter Grimes and Don Giovanni for Oper Koeln, Magic Flute at English National Opera, Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream at Welsh National Opera, Rape of Lucretia for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Turn of the Screw at the Aldeburgh Festival with Aurora Orchestra. Born in London, Nicholas is a violist, pianist and organist by training, and studied as Organ Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge.

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