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Winterreise
A cycle of songs for a voice with accompaniment of the pianoforte (1828)
based on poems by Wilhelm Müller
Staging facility Ingo Kerkhove
Light Franz Tscheck
Baritone Florian Boesch
Malcolm Martineau piano
A year before his death, Schubert completed the song cycle Winterreise based on texts by Wilhelm Müller. The theme of wandering pervades the whole of Romanticism, and the fact that wandering should be the miller's pleasure goes back directly to the literary writer Wilhelm Müller, who is still in the shadow of Heinrich Heine to this day. The beautiful Müllerin, Schubert's first song cycle, also based on Wilhelm Müller, reveals a chronological plot. The winter journey, created five years later, is a series of associations that a traveler encounters on his hike. Considering Müller's biography, the subject does not seem entirely coincidental: As a volunteer guard hunter in the Prussian army, the young Wilhelm Müller was quickly made lieutenant and just as quickly dismissed when he fell in love with a Jewish merchant's wife in Brussels. Deprived of all hope, Müller marched back alone and on foot from Brussels to Berlin in the middle of winter. Doomed Schubert congenially translated Müller's mood into music: In the heart of the hiker there is permanent winter, only at night he remembers happier days, vacillates between numbness and the futile longing for a better life. When Schubert began setting Müller's poems to music in February 1827, he was already terminally ill with syphilis. His friend and patron Joseph von Spaun found Schubert in a gloomy mood during this time, and he seemed physically offended. When Schubert sang the Winterreise to his friends in a private circle “with a moving voice”, Spaun was “completely amazed by the gloomy mood of these songs”. Schubert himself, who had announced the Winterreise as “a cycle of gruesome songs”, “liked these songs more than all of them, and you will also like them.” In the wide repertoire of the baritone Florian Boesch, the song has a very special place is his personal passion. In his recitals, Boesch is not looking for a pose, but for his subtly personal approach: "The Winterreise is not a challenge in terms of singing, but rather in terms of interpretation."
Subject to changes.
based on poems by Wilhelm Müller
Staging facility Ingo Kerkhove
Light Franz Tscheck
Baritone Florian Boesch
Malcolm Martineau piano
A year before his death, Schubert completed the song cycle Winterreise based on texts by Wilhelm Müller. The theme of wandering pervades the whole of Romanticism, and the fact that wandering should be the miller's pleasure goes back directly to the literary writer Wilhelm Müller, who is still in the shadow of Heinrich Heine to this day. The beautiful Müllerin, Schubert's first song cycle, also based on Wilhelm Müller, reveals a chronological plot. The winter journey, created five years later, is a series of associations that a traveler encounters on his hike. Considering Müller's biography, the subject does not seem entirely coincidental: As a volunteer guard hunter in the Prussian army, the young Wilhelm Müller was quickly made lieutenant and just as quickly dismissed when he fell in love with a Jewish merchant's wife in Brussels. Deprived of all hope, Müller marched back alone and on foot from Brussels to Berlin in the middle of winter. Doomed Schubert congenially translated Müller's mood into music: In the heart of the hiker there is permanent winter, only at night he remembers happier days, vacillates between numbness and the futile longing for a better life. When Schubert began setting Müller's poems to music in February 1827, he was already terminally ill with syphilis. His friend and patron Joseph von Spaun found Schubert in a gloomy mood during this time, and he seemed physically offended. When Schubert sang the Winterreise to his friends in a private circle “with a moving voice”, Spaun was “completely amazed by the gloomy mood of these songs”. Schubert himself, who had announced the Winterreise as “a cycle of gruesome songs”, “liked these songs more than all of them, and you will also like them.” In the wide repertoire of the baritone Florian Boesch, the song has a very special place is his personal passion. In his recitals, Boesch is not looking for a pose, but for his subtly personal approach: "The Winterreise is not a challenge in terms of singing, but rather in terms of interpretation."
Subject to changes.
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