| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Jonas Kaufmann's Die Winterreise at the Wiener Konzerthaus |
 Those who attended Jonas Kaufmann’s Vienna Wagner debut and were wondering why his Parsifal was beautiful but rather underwhelming in volume, were given the answer on the stage of the Konzerthaus two days later, when he announced himself as “still ill after a severe cold”.Read full review... | |
| 13-Dec-2012 Howard Assembly Room | Alice Coote and Julius Drake perform Winterreise in Leeds |
 By adding Schubert’s Winterresie to her repertoire Alice Coote joins a long tradition of female interpreters including the likes of Christine Schäfer and her own mentor Brigitte Fassbaender. In this performance of Schubert’s great song cycle, however, it was the piano playing of Julius Drake, rather than Coote’s singing, which penetrated to the heart of the work.
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| 18-Apr-2012 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Bitterness and Beauty: Goerne and Eschenbach Perform Winterreise |
 Late in life, the conductor Bruno Walter would often recall the moment Gustav Mahler first showed him the manuscript to the as yet unperformed Das Lied von der Erde. The work, with its poignancy and profound world-weariness, seemed even to take its composer aback. “But don’t you think it’ll make people want to do away with themselves?,” he said of the work. Much the same could be said of Franz Schubert’s final song cycle, Winterreise. Less a group of songs and more a kind of extended operatic monologue, Winterreise is Schubert at his most tragic.Read full review... | |
| 11-Feb-2012 Sheldonian Theatre | Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis: Wintereise |
 Last night brought Mark Padmore (tenor) and Paul Lewis (piano) to the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford for a recital of Schubert’s Winterreise, Schubert’s setting of a text by the short-lived lyric poet Wilhelm Müller. The poems focus on a ‘wanderer’ whose only friend is his shadow, having been rejected by his sweetheart in favour of a new lover. He walks past where he and his lover carved their names into a linden tree which invites him to ‘find his peace’ in suicide.Read full review... | |
