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Le Voyage d'Hiver

Franz Schubert

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released September 16, 2008 | Analekta

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Schubert : Winterreise (Voyage d'hiver)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Classical - Released February 23, 2018 | Warner Classics

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Schubert: Voyage d'hiver

Victoire Bunel

Classical - Released January 12, 2024 | B Records

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Un Jour Si Blanc

François Couturier

Jazz - Released January 25, 2010 | ECM

The title of François Couturier's album, Un Jour Si Blanc, comes from a poem by Soviet filmmaker Andreï Tarkovsky, an artist with whom the pianist is fascinated and whose work was the inspiration for his entire 2006 album, Nostalghia: Song for Tarkovsky. The French pianist has devoted most of his career to jazz, but he obviously knows the classical repertoire well because in previous albums he has made musical references to composers as diverse as Pergolesi, Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Schnittke. That broad frame of reference gives his music an uncommon expressive scope, and the selections on this album offer an impressive stylistic and emotional range. It's possible to hear the influence of Messiaen in L'aube, Ligeti in the crystalline chromatic sections of the title track, and sultry hints of Piazzolla in Voyage d'hiver, but there is no sense of appropriation because the voice is always Couturier's own. His dazzlingly crisp technique gives him the freedom to explore and create pianistic figures that would be out of the reach of all but the most virtuosic players. In the more meditative pieces, he plays with a mesmerizing, unhurried serenity and flexibility; it almost feels like it's possible to hear him listening. Couturier can be heard quietly vocalizing in the more intense passages, but it's no distraction. The album should appeal to fans of both jazz and new classical music with a taste for the adventurous. ECM's sound is characteristically clean, clear, and immediate. © TiVo

Schubert Le Voyage d’hiver

Gerald Moore

Classical - Released February 23, 2018 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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Schubert: Winterreise

Cyrille Dubois

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released December 1, 2023 | NoMadMusic

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Voyage intime

Sandrine Piau

Classical - Released February 3, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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No one can accuse soprano Sandrine Piau of ever resting on her laurels, and with this 2023 release, she began, in her late fifties, a new partnership with accompanist David Kadouch. It is a bit hard to tell what the theme is supposed to be all about. Only some of the songs are "intimes," and many are not about voyages; Piau also notes that some of the songs are about "the theme of people being snatched away from the land of the living," not an especially intimate concept. Best just to listen and take the songs one by one, and this will reveal not only strong performances but organizational principles the performers don't mention. The first part of the program is devoted to German lieder, the second to French mélodies (before a final return to Schubert), with one piano piece in each set. Piau is arguably the greatest French interpreter of German song, and her Schubert Erlkönig, D. 328, has nothing trite about it as she inhabits but doesn't make opera characters out of the three characters in the piece. Another "theme" is that Piau really makes songs by women her own. There is a group by Clara Schumann, with an excellent setting of Heine's Lorelei that owes something to Erlkönig but is in no way a knockoff, and a fine group by Lili Boulanger that fits Piau beautifully. Sample Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rêve. Perhaps the Mignon songs do not fit her quite so well at this late date, but the heftier numbers by Liszt and Wolf more than make up for this. Yet another theme is that these are all songs that give the pianist a great deal to do, and Piau's interactions with Kadouch are sensitive and detailed enough to make one eagerly anticipate future collaborations. Superbly recorded by Alpha at the Teldex Studio in Berlin, the album made classical best-seller charts in early 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Schubert: Winterreise

Joyce DiDonato

Classical - Released April 9, 2021 | Warner Classics

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World famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin join forces to take on one of the most brilliant song cycles ever written: Schubert's Winterreise. DiDonato, however, casts a different light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs in telling their story from the perspective of the woman, the lost love. Nancy Plum, from Town Topics (Princeton) writes: "The question of what happened to the woman who sent the narrator on a tortuous journey was not answered in the Wilhelm Müller poetry from which Schubert drew the text, but DiDonato created a scenario onstage of being that woman, reading from the narrator's journal and responding to the inherent despair". "What stood out was the heavy emotion that came through in her singing, as she lingered on a syllable here, pressed her tone there. She created vivid feelings with her contrasts", wrote The New York Classical Review about Joyce Didonato's interpretation. © Warner Classics
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise & Schwanengesang

Nathalie Stutzmann

Classical - Released November 10, 2014 | Erato - Warner Classics

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Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)

Ian Bostridge

Classical - Released August 1, 2019 | PentaTone

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Just like Pears and Britten, Ian Bostridge worked with the composer Thomas Adès on this recording of Schubert's Winterreise, made at a concert at London's famous Wigmore Hall in 2018. With his unique voice and style, the British singer divides opinion. Love him or hate him, he evokes strong feelings. As we fall into the former camp, we couldn't recommend this recording strongly enough. It is very different from the studio version recorded some years before for EMI, with the great Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Compared to that splendid record, this new version is simpler, almost calmer. Thomas Adès makes use of original manuscripts to build a fine accompaniment, that gives voice to the overwhelming melancholy of the young composer who knows himself to be doomed. Fatal wanderings, seen through a lens of solitude, regret and resignation. The first volume of a trilogy which will eventually bring together Schubert's great cycles, in live recordings by these same musicians. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Schubert Sessions: Lieder with Guitar

Franz Schubert

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released October 14, 2016 | Groupe Analekta, Inc

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Schubert - 50 of the Best

Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra

Classical - Released June 11, 2013 | Naxos Special Projects

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Schubert: Die Winterreise

Andreas Staier

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released August 29, 1997 | Warner Classics International

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Schubert: Winterreise

Brigitte Fassbaender

Classical - Released January 1, 2002 | Warner Classics

Schubert knew madness. He knew it to the depths of his soul and feared it. And out of his fear he wrote the greatest monument to love lost, to death lost, to madness found. He wrote Die Winterreise, the most hopeless art work ever conceived by the despairing mind of man.Speaking of madness, is Brigitte Fassbaender nuts? A woman singing Winterreise? Although it could be argued that women are capable of experiencing the emotions of Schubert's cycle, a woman interpreting those oh-so-macho emotions is hard for most men to believe. "Nevertheless," as Galileo said, "it moves." "Can a woman interpret those emotions?" is an absurd question. Lotte Lehmann did so, and did so superbly more than 50 years ago. But, to answer the question "is Brigitte Fassbaender nuts?" the answer is "yeah, d'you've a problem with that?" After all, aside from the singer's gender and other pointless concerns, what's the most important psychological characteristic a human being needs to sing Winterreise? He/she has to be crazy or at least act the part. Fassbaender may not be crazy, but she can act. More to the point, she can act and sing and thereby convince, no, compel belief in her audience. Fassbaender's is one of the great Winterreises.© TiVo
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Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Classical - Released October 28, 2013 | Orfeo

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Schubert: Winterreise

Mark Padmore

Classical - Released January 19, 2018 | harmonia mundi

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Recorded in the Mennonite (Anabaptist) church in Haarlem, the Netherlands, this recording unfolds in very reverberant acoustic surroundings, giving it a slightly unreal aura that is perfectly suited to the sad, timeless poems of Wilhelm Müller's Winter Journey (Winterreise) set to music by Franz Schubert.Whether it's a dream or a nightmare, the overwhelming density of Schubert's message calls for artists who can embody this hopeless solitude. Mark Padmore had already recorded the cycle with Paul Lewis playing a modern piano. Kristian Bezuidenhout's personality, and his Viennese pianoforte, and Mark Padmore's light tenor voice (probably close to the one in which Schubert sang this cycle) give these pages an even more touching gravity, as they take aim at the prime of youth.The complicity and the mutual listening between the singer and the pianoforte form the basis of these two artists' work. The perceptible affectation in the singer's art is tempered by the simplicity and unfailing support of the pianoforte accompaniment. Here, this surprising romantic wandering takes on unusual and disconcerting resonances, opening up unsuspected horizons. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Brendel plays Schubert

Alfred Brendel

Classical - Released February 15, 2021 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Schubert: Winterreise

Franz Schubert

Classical - Released November 19, 2014 | Challenge Classics

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Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise was composed in 1827, the year before his premature death. The tones of depression and desolation that dominate this setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller might seem to be a reflection of Schubert's own gloomy state of mind as he faced mortality, though the depiction of a lonely wanderer who cuts himself off from the world was a commonplace of Romantic literature and was not necessarily a projection of the composer's emotional state. Even so, Winterreise is not a cheerful work, and performances of it often emphasize a brooding tone, as well as dark sonorities. The way Winterreise is presented by tenor Christoph Prégardien and pianist Michael Gees on this 2013 Challenge Classics release prevents an easy analysis, for much of the music's darkness is alleviated by the singer's lyrical tone and the accompanist's light touch. Indeed, the sound of the performance and the transparent quality of the super audio recording make this one of the brighter sounding Winterreise performances available, so much so that listeners should sample it to see if it meets their expectations. With that caveat in mind, this is a sensitive interpretation that conveys tenderness and gentleness, and Prégardien's presentation is a refreshing, if unexpected, change of pace.© TiVo
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Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911

Leif Ove Andsnes

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Warner Classics

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Hans Hotter - Gerald Moore

Hans Hotter

Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | Warner Classics

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