The Gramophone Award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake turns to perhaps the most celebrated song-cycle of them all. Schubert's Winterreise is a masterpiece of despair, astonishing in it's bleakness and enthrallingly mesmerizing as the journey continues. Finley brings all his considerable dramatic powers to his performance - and all but submerges them under the ice. Winterreise is the second of Schubert's two great song cycles on William Muller's poems, the earlier being Die schene Mullerin. The work's tone echoes the composer's own mood, as it was written during a particularly melancholic period in Schubert's life.
Tracks: 1.1 Winterreise D911 Gute Nacht [5'50] 1.2 Winterreise D911 Die Wetterfahne [1'54] 1.3 Winterreise D911 Gefrorne Tränen [2'40] 1.4 Winterreise D911 Erstarrung [3'04] 1.5 Winterreise D911 Der Lindenbaum [5'22] 1.6 Winterreise D911 Wasserflut [3'42] 1.7 Winterreise D911 Auf Dem Flusse [3'50] 1.8 Winterreise D911 Rückblick [2'14] 1.9 Winterreise D911 Irrlicht [2'26] 1.10 Winterreise D911 Rast [3'31] 1.11 Winterreise D911 Frühlingstraum [4'32] 1.12 Winterreise D911 Einsamkeit [2'52] 1.13 Winterreise D911 Die Post [2'17] 1.14 Winterreise D911 Der Greise Kopf [3'06] 1.15 Winterreise D911 Die Krähe [2'05] 1.16 Winterreise D911 Letzte Hoffnung [2'22] 1.17 Winterreise D911 Im Dorfe [3'34] 1.18 Winterreise D911 Der Stürmische Morgen [0'53] 1.19 Winterreise D911 Täuschung [1'16] 1.20 Winterreise D911 Der Wegweiser [4'24] 1.21 Winterreise D911 Das Wirtshaus [4'24] 1.22 Winterreise D911 Mut! [1'28] 1.23 Winterreise D911 Die Nebensonnen [3'03] 1.24 Winterreise D911 Der Leiermann [3'44]
