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.

The Review

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.

The review

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.

The article

I recently bought Yuri Honing and Nora Mulder’s Winterries CD from Amazon. Winterreise recorded on saxophone? How interesting! Unfortunately the let downs began as soon as I flipped the (cardboard) case over. Contrary to what the cover implies the disc does not contain the entire Winterreise cycle performed on Saxophone. The thirteen track disc contains twelve songs for Winterreise, in a seemingly random order, and then ends with Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen.

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