Schubert: Winterreise Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Winterreise, D. 911:
• 1 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 1, Gute Nacht 05:22
• 2 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 2, Die Wetterfahne 01:47
• 3 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen 02:16
• 4 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 4, Erstarrung 02:58
• 5 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 5, Der Lindenbaum 04:37
• 6 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 6, Wasserflut 04:14
• 7 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 7, Auf dem Flusse 03:27
• 8 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 8, Rückblick 02:19
• 9 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 9, Irrlicht 02:31
• 10 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 10, Rast 02:54
• 11 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 11, Frühlingstraum 03:52
• 12 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 12, Einsamkeit 02:38
• 13 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 13, Die Post 02:17
• 14 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 14, Der greise Kopf 02:56
• 15 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 15, Die Krähe 02:01
• 16 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung 02:13
• 17 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 17, Im Dorfe 03:38
• 18 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen 00:53
• 19 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 19, Täuschung 01:31
• 20 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 20, Der Wegweiser 03:55
• 21 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 21, Das Wirtshaus 04:08
• 22 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 22, Mut 01:24
• 23 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 23, Die Nebensonnen 02:43
• 24 Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 24, Der Leiermann 03:33
• Total Runtime 01:10:07

Info for Schubert: Winterreise

The days are getting shorter, the trees hardly have any leaves left, it is getting dull and cold outside. Winter is inexorably approaching. Some people easily sink into heavy, melancholy thoughts during this dark season. In Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise", too, both come together: wintry nature and the inner dejection of the wanderer. One year before his death, in the autumn of 1827, Schubert completed this song cycle to texts by Wilhelm Müller.

The career of the Berlin-born Lied and opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau began in 1948 with a recording of Winterreise for RIAS. Franz Schubert's romantic song cycle was to accompany him throughout his life. Fischer-Dieskau sang it again and again, accompanied by renowned pianists such as Alfred Brendel and Daniel Barenboim. His most famous recording, however, was made in the UFA sound studios in Berlin in August 1971 with Gerald Moore at the piano. To this day, this is considered the reference recording of the cycle par excellence.

It is night, it is winter - at least in the Wanderer's heart. After his lover has left him, there is nothing holding him back. He sets out at night, hurries out of the city, wants to leave everything behind. But it is not easy for him: again and again he looks back and revels in sweet memories of happier days. Torn between bitterness, hope and a death wish, he swings from one emotional extreme to another. In the wintry landscape he sees images of his own inner torpor. When Wilhelm Müller wrote these lines, he was probably also processing his own memories of a love affair he had as a soldier during the wars of liberation. Because his beloved belonged to the politically hostile camp, Müller was dishonorably discharged from his service.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Gerald Moore, piano

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