National Public Radio has an excellent discussion of Schubert’s Winterrise in layman’s terms. They focus on Thomas Quasthoff’s 1998 recording.
Ted Libbey And Lisa Simeone Recommend Schubert’s Winterreise
Anna Picard has a short review of the new Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis recording of Winterreise in the The Independent. In the review she cites the recording as being “interesting reversal of roles” for Padmore and Lewis.
Opera Britannia’s Paul Dalton offers a review of Andrew Foster-Williams‘ and Christopher Gould’s recent performance of Winterreise which was performed along with some sort of visual projection by Mariele Neudecker. The review goes into very little detail, but I link to it here mostly as a record of the performance. If you know more about this performance, and especially about the projections, please leave a note in the comments.
A week ago I wrote about the new recording of Winterreise by Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis, and today I find a fantastic review of it over at wosu.org, the website for WOSU public media. The reviewer Jennifer Hambrick clearly knows her lieder and her Winterreise. The review features four excellent musical excerpts which each highlight sections of the recording which are unique and remarkable. Check it out.
According to Amazon.com a new recording of Winterreise
A review of the recording can be found at ClassicsToday.com and a review of a live performance they gave can be found at Musicweb-International.com.
Animator Waren Criswell created this hauntingly beautiful animation “Die Krähe” with a surprise ending.
His description:
Unlucky in love, a man wanders in a winter landscape, followed by a hungry crow. Faithful to the grave. But this one has an ending more Sopranos than Schubert….
Animation by Warren, music by Franz Schubert: The Crow, from Winterreise, Tenor Mat Tatus, piano Bob Boury
The Crow from Warren Criswell on Vimeo.
About five months ago I wrote a scathing review of a recording of Yuri Honing performing parts of Winterreise on saxophone with Nora Mulder on piano. Today I was searching for Winterreise on the beautiful video site vimeo.com and found a video of them performing exceprts. Now you can make your own assessment.
Winterreise from Wim Zagt on Vimeo.
The Gramophone Archive has a wonderful article discussing Fischer-Deiskau’s many recordings of Winterreise. It talks about the circumstances surrounding the recordings as well as various advantages and disadvantages of each recording.
Although the quality is not the best, scribd.com has a free public domain score of Winterreise which you can either view online, or download as a .pdf file. The score is scan of a Winterreise pocket score which sounds like a great thing to have, but I can’t find for sale anywhere. If you are looking for a better quality score, look here.
Youtube has, what appears to be, a promotional video for a production of Winterreise performed with projected images and puppets. According the singer-director’s page on the project the performance seems consists of a traditionally sung Winterreise with original animated illustrations, puppets and a 19th Century Guitar added for musical flavor. If the video is an accurate representation of the performance, it looks like an intriguing take on Schubert’s cycle which has been performed in various theaters since it’s creation in 2004.
