Composer: Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Joyce DiDonato, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Erato
Catalogue: 9029528414
Release: 2021
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911
01. No. 1, Gute Nacht
02. No. 2, Die Wetterfahne
03. No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen
04. No. 4, Erstarrung
05. No. 5, Der Lindenbaum
06. No. 6, Wasserflut
07. No. 7, Auf dem Flusse
08. No. 8, Rückblick
09. No. 9, Irrlicht
10. No. 10, Rast
11. No. 11, Frühlingstraum
12. No. 12, Einsamkeit
13. No. 13, Die Post
14. No. 14, Der greise Kopf
15. No. 15, Die Krähe
16. No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung
17. No. 17, Im Dorfe
18. No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen
19. No. 19, Täuschung
20. No. 20, Der Wegweiser
21. No. 21, Das Wirtshaus
22. No. 22, Mut
23. No. 23, Die Nebensonnen
24. No. 24, Der Leiermann
World famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin join forces to take on one of the most brilliant song cycles ever written: Schubert’s Winterreise. DiDonato, however, casts a different light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs in telling their story from the perspective of the woman, the lost love. Nancy Plum, from Town Topics (Princeton) writes: “The question of what happened to the woman who sent the narrator on a tortuous journey was not answered in the Wilhelm Müller poetry from which Schubert drew the text, but DiDonato created a scenario onstage of being that woman, reading from the narrator’s journal and responding to the inherent despair”. “What stood out was the heavy emotion that came through in her singing, as she lingered on a syllable here, pressed her tone there. She created vivid feelings with her contrasts”, wrote The New York Classical Review about Joyce Didonato’s interpretation.