Schubert - Winterreise - Fischer-Dieskau / Moore (1955)

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Franz Schubert - Die Winterreise D.911 (1827)

00:00 - 1. Gute Nacht
05:12 - 2. Die Wetterfahne
07:00 - 3. Gefror'ne Tränen
09:25 - 4. Erstarrung
12:14 - 5. Der Lindenbaum
16:52 - 6. Wasserflut
21:11 - 7. Auf dem Flusse
24:51 - 8. Rückblick
27:17 - 9. Irrlicht
30:04 - 10. Rast
33:02 - 11. Frühlingstraum
37:00 - 12. Einsamkeit
39:37 - 13. Die Post
41:52 - 14. Der greise Kopf
45:00 - 15. Die Krähe
46:59 - 16. Letzte Hoffnung
49:24 - 17. Im Dorfe
52:27 - 18. Der stürmische Morgen
53:17 - 19. Täuschung
54:52 - 20. Der Wegweiser
58:55 - 21. Das Wirtshaus
1:03:29 - 22. Mut!
1:04:49 - 23. Die Nebensonnen
1:07:39 - 24. Der Leiermann

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - baritone
Gerald Moore - piano
(Festival de Prades, 1955)

The Winter Journey stands as the pinnacle of more than 600 lieder Schubert wrote in his lifetime. He began to work on the cycle in 1827 during a period of ill health, having contracted syphilis five years prior. The 24 songs are a setting of poems by Wilhelm Müller which depict a young man wandering a melancholic winter landscape, pining for lost love, meditating on life and death. The protagonist stops by familiar locations - his sweetheart's house, an old lime tree, the cemetary. The very last piece 'Der Leiermann' tells of him meeting a hurdy-gurdy player whom he asks to accompany his songs with music, which serves as a fitting parallel between Müller's poems and their setting by Schubert, despite the two men never having met. Schubert didn't live to see the second part of the work published, making the final corrections just days before his tragic death at the age of mere 31 years.

Artwork:
Caspar Friedrich - Winterlandschaft (1811)