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
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.
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.
I recently bought Yuri Honing and Nora Mulder’s Winterries CD from Amazon
While I bought the album for it’s novelty appeal, I must admit that I held some hope that the saxophone would somehow transcend language and cut directly to the heart of the dense music; expressing the lonesome yearning and tender heartbreak. How wrong I was. While I still maintain that such a recording could be made, Continue reading
