Schubert: Winterreise (Live from Wigmore Hall)

Schubert: Winterreise (Live from Wigmore Hall)

Schubert: Winterreise (Live from Wigmore Hall)
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Performer: Matthias Goerne
Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Music Label: Decca
Product features:
  • GOERNE MATTHIAS / BRENDEL ALFRED SCHUBERT: WINTERRIESE
Soundtracks:
  1. Gute Nacht
  2. Die Wetterfahne
  3. Gefrorne Tranen
  4. Erstarrung
  5. Der Lindenbaum
  6. Wasserflut
  7. Auf Dem Flusse
  8. Ruckblick
  9. Irrlicht
  10. Rast
  11. Fruhlingstraum
  12. Einsamkeit
  13. Die Post
  14. Der Greise Kopf
  15. Die Krahe
  16. Letzte Hoffnung
  17. Im Dorfe
  18. Der Sturmische Morgen
  19. Tauschung
  20. Der Wegwieser
  21. Das Wirtshaus
  22. Mut
  23. Die Nebensonnen
  24. Der Leierman

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Free Music Review: A superb "Winterreise"
Hit: 5 Stars

This live 2004 performance of Schubert's "Winterreise" has caused different reactions. In parts of old Europe, it has been hailed as something very special. By contrast, in the US, some reviewers have had great difficulties with Goerne's style, claiming that he rather whispers and shouts instead of actually singing.

Considering the latter opinion, it is clear that Goerne has his own style. But what's the problem with that? One reviewer here at amazon says that Schubert's "Winterreise" has its "greatest impact when sung with unaffected emootional [sic!] directness". Dan Davis at Classicstoday says that Goerne's performance is "still marred by overinterpretation that, while apparently deeply felt, comes off as self-regarding." He also thinks that Goerne occasionally adopts a "quasi-sprechstimme style" in his performance.

Apparently these guys hold the view that there are great restrictions in interpreting Schubert's "Winterreise". You're out of bounds if you dare to do something personal with it.

When I listen to this performance I cannot see that this objection is relevant. Goerne and Brendel is an ideal match, as in the cases of Pears/Britten, Fischer-Dieskau/Moore, and Hotter/Moore. All these recordings make sense to me, in their own ways. Together with Hans Hotter's recording, however, I think this is the most personal and disturbing performance that I have heard - "disturbing" in the sense of moving; that the particular mood of these desolated songs actually is transmitted through the interpretation as such. It is of course possible to sing "Winterreise" with a beautiful tone, more or less ignoring the content of Müller's poems. For example, Fischer-Dieskau often strikes me as more focussed on his beautiful tone than on the bitter moods in the traveller's songs. By contrast, I think that Goerne/Brendel and Hotter/Moore perform this work as it represents its own world to us.

This is a contemporary "Winterreise" for our times. That means that it articulates a performance of Schubert's work that is both representative and highly individualistic. Not even Hotter took it as far as Goerne. This is of course chocking to some people. But it could be seen as perfectly consistent with the work's internal structure.

Sound is fine, audience is mainly quiet, Brendel's playing is superb.

Highly recommended!
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