Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D911

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An intelligent and vividly communicative artist whose rich, healthy singing is difficult to resist. With sturdy support from Lars David Nilsson, he performs the cycle with the sort of directness... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Release Date: 27th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: BIS2444
Label: BIS
Length: 68 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Vocal

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Schubert: Winterreise D911

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Peter Mattei (baritone), Lars David Nilsson (piano)

No. 1, Gute Nacht

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No. 2, Die Wetterfahne

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No. 3, Gefror'ne Tränen

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No. 4, Erstarrung

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No. 5, Der Lindenbaum

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No. 6, Wasserflut

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No. 7, Auf dem Flusse

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No. 8, Rückblick

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No. 9, Irrlicht

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No. 10, Rast

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No. 11, Frühlingstraum

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No. 12, Einsamkeit

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No. 13, Die Post

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No. 14, Der greise Kopf

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No. 15, Die Krähe

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No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung

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No. 17, Im Dorfe

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No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen

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No. 19, Täuschung

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No. 20, Der Wegweiser

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No. 21, Das Wirtshaus

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No. 22, Mut

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No. 23, Die Nebensonnen

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No. 24, Der Leiermann

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Peter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the world’s leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On the present release he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon: the traveller in Schubert’s Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Müller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Müller’s texts revolve around a young man who after being rejected leaves his village and heads into the desolate, snowy countryside. In the course of the cycle he experiences loss and an aching loneliness interrupted by fleeting glimpses of hope, but ultimately the landscape through which he is moving is colored by alienation and despair. Müller died at thirty-two years old in 1827, the very year in which Winterreise was composed – and Schubert himself died the following year, still making revisions to the last of the songs while on his deathbed. When Schubert invited his closest friends to a gathering in order to listen to the cycle he called the songs ‘gruesome’, and according to one witness the audience was shocked by their sombre mood. In this recording, Mattei brings all his interpretive skills to bear. He is supported by the piano of Lars David Nilsson, which reinforces the different moods and characters of the twenty-four songs and often assumes the role of a narrator, alongside the singer.

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December 2019

An intelligent and vividly communicative artist whose rich, healthy singing is difficult to resist. With sturdy support from Lars David Nilsson, he performs the cycle with the sort of directness and vocal charisma one would expect...Could there be more variety in the tone? Possibly; and there are a couple of arguable interpretative choices. But, vocally speaking, this is one of the handsomest versions of this work available.

December 2019

A truly valuable addition to the Winterreise discography.

Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D911

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