Schubert: Winterreise

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert: Winterreise

Schubert: Winterreise
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Artist: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Composer: Franz Schubert
Performer: Jörg Demus
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-02-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
  1. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Gute Nacht
  2. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Die Wetterfahne
  3. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Gefrorne Tränen
  4. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Erstarrung
  5. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Der Lindenbaum
  6. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Wasserflut
  7. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Auf dem Flusse
  8. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Ruckblick
  9. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Irrlicht
  10. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Rast
  11. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Fruhlingstraum
  12. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Einsamkeit
  13. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Die Post
  14. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Der greise Kopf
  15. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Die Krahe
  16. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Letzte Hoffnung
  17. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Im Dorfe
  18. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Der sturmische Morgen
  19. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Tauschung
  20. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Der Wegweiser
  21. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Das Wirtshaus
  22. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Mut!
  23. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Die Nebensonnen
  24. Winterreise D 911, Op.89: Der Leiermann

Music reviews of Schubert: Winterreise

Music Review: Hearing Schubert's Winterreise
Rating: 5 Stars

For reasons I don't fully understand, I have developed a custom over the past several years of listening to Schubert's Winterreise at around the time of the Fourth of July. Perhaps it is the contrast between the hot summer days and the icy, wintery setting of Schubert's songs. In addition, the one-day summer break, encouraging reflection in the midst of a busy year, draws me to Schubert's music. But more so, while occupied with public celebrations, such as fireworks, parades, and company (which I also enjoy), I find it valuable to do something private,pensive, and deeply sad. It is the feeling of being alone. Thus, this year, as in several years past, I have reheard "Winterreise".

Winterreise is a cycle of 24 poems by Wilhelm Muller that Schubert set in 1827, just months before his death. The singer is a man who has just been rejected by a woman he has met in a town to which he has wandered. "A stranger I arrived/ a stranger I depart again", he sings at the outset of the work. The work covers a range of feelings from rejection through loneliness, despondency, self-criticism, anger, dashed hope, thoughts of suicide, heartbreak, and, at the end, madness. It is wrenching music, utterly sad. It captures feelings that those who have been alone will know, regardless of musical sophistication. For all the sadness of the score, I never fail to feel restored upon hearing it.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recorded at least seven studio versions of "Winterreise" during a long career. I am most familiar with his recordings with his long-time accompanist, Gerald Moore; but I find that this recording, dating from 1966, with pianist Jorg Demus surpasses the versions with Moore. The phrasing, dramatic power, and passion of Fischer-Dieskau's singing on this recording are extraordinary. In virtually all of these songs, Fischer-Dieskau displays contrasts in the protagonist's mood and feelings. Many of the songs begin with slow and melancholy lines as Fischer-Dieskau works up to climactic passages of fury and despondency and then, frequently, falls back again. He makes great contrast between a declamatory singing style, almost approaching speech, and a flowing lyricism. Demus's accompaniment is smoldering and subdued. He sets the stage for Fischer-Dieskau with the many preludes Schubert composed for the songs, some of which are tone-paintings for the falling of the snow, the coldness of ice, the blowing of the wind, the flying of crows, and the isolation of the heart.

Among the songs that moved me on this hearing of "Winterreise" were no. 4, "numbness"; no. 5. "Der Lindenbaum", the most famous work of the cycle; no. 12, "Loneliness"; no. 14. "the hoary head" ; no. 15, the haunting "the crow"; no. 19, "deception" with its heartbreaking line "Ah, anybody as wretched as I/ yields gladly to this bright deceit"; and the two final songs of madness, nos. 23 and 24, "The Phantom Suns" and "The Organ Grinder."

Anyone who know what it is to be alone will love "Winterreise" regardless of the time of year. This recording is an unparallelled way to get to know this music.

Robin Friedman

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Any great concert singer is likely to have a lifelong obsession with Schubert's greatest song cycle, which tracks the winter journey of a jilted lover wandering into the snow finding ever-greater depths of alienation. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau seemed to record the piece every 10 years or so, but this 1966 outing is said to be his favorite, and it's easy to understand why. All of his customary intelligence is in full evidence, but the voice is particularly resplendent. While this carries an obvious sensual appeal--and every two minutes or so he does something that takes your breath away--the voice also illuminates his overall interpretive concepts with a clarity that can be achieved perhaps only by a voice in its absolute prime. Particularly gratifying is his emotional directness; later performances could be so refined, so worked over that the emotionalism (such an important part of this piece) seemed more remembered than felt. --David Patrick Stearns

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