Franz Schubert - Winterreise
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RRP £20.30 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Mattei/Nilsson
- Label
- BIS Records
- Barcode
- 7318599924441
Peter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the worlds leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On the present disc he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon: the traveller in Schuberts Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Müller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Müller died aged just thirty-two years old in 1827, the very year in which Winterreise was composed and Schubert himself died the following year, still making revisions to the last of the songs while on his deathbed. When Schubert invited his closest friends to a gathering in order to listen to the cycle he called the songs gruesome, and according to one witness the audience was shocked by their sombre mood. In this recording, Mattei brings all his interpretive skills to bear. He is supported by the piano of Lars David Nilsson, which reinforces the different moods and characters of the twenty-four songs and often assumes the role of a narrator, alongside the singer.
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- Winterreise
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