Schubert: Winterreise Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Winterreise, D. 911:
• 1Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 1, Gute Nacht05:22
• 2Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 2, Die Wetterfahne01:47
• 3Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen02:16
• 4Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 4, Erstarrung02:58
• 5Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 5, Der Lindenbaum04:37
• 6Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 6, Wasserflut04:14
• 7Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 7, Auf dem Flusse03:27
• 8Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 8, Rückblick02:19
• 9Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 9, Irrlicht02:31
• 10Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 10, Rast02:54
• 11Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 11, Frühlingstraum03:52
• 12Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 12, Einsamkeit02:38
• 13Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 13, Die Post02:17
• 14Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 14, Der greise Kopf02:56
• 15Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 15, Die Krähe02:01
• 16Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung02:13
• 17Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 17, Im Dorfe03:38
• 18Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen00:53
• 19Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 19, Täuschung01:31
• 20Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 20, Der Wegweiser03:55
• 21Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 21, Das Wirtshaus04:08
• 22Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 22, Mut01:24
• 23Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 23, Die Nebensonnen02:43
• 24Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: No. 24, Der Leiermann03:33
• Total Runtime01:10:07

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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