Schubert: Winterreise D911
Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano)
the intense focus and concentration of both performers is confirmed visually. And the four cameramen offer simple, unfussy shots...this is no recital with a live audience: it is suffused with...
Schubert: Winterreise D911
Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano)
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the intense focus and concentration of both performers is confirmed visually. And the four cameramen offer simple, unfussy shots...this is no recital with a live audience: it is suffused with...
About
World famous tenor Christoph Prégardien continues his series of recordings for Challenge Classics of Schubert song-cycles, with what many consider to be the composer’s greatest work in the genre “Winterreise”. As with previous critically acclaimed releases in the series the pianist is Michael Gees. This DVD release features video of a performance of the work as well as the documentary “Winterreise, Der dritte Weg” (Winterreise, the third way), which presents interviews with Prégardien and Gees and behind-the-scenes footage of the studio recording process.
DVD specifications:
Region code: 0 (region free)
Rating: E (exempt)
Picture format: 16:9, NTSC (region free)
Sound format: Stereo Dolby Digital 2.0, Surround Dolby Digital 5.1
Contents and tracklist
- Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (piano)
Awards and reviews
September 2013
the intense focus and concentration of both performers is confirmed visually. And the four cameramen offer simple, unfussy shots...this is no recital with a live audience: it is suffused with the stark clarity and natural daylight of a recording studio in Belgium.
17th August 2013
Diction and word-colouring are a delight: we get a detailed, precisely-inflected portrait of the poet’s descent into despair, thoughtfully supported by Gees and recorded in immaculate sound.
Awards Issue 2013
Prégardien, finely abetted by Michael Gees's discerning, precisely coloured pianism...Crucially, he 'lives' the cycle as vividly as ever...Prégardien remains at once one of the most scrupulous and moving interpreters of Winterreise.
September 2013
Prégardien and Gees strike the listener as thinking their way through the experience of the lover as he is himself understanding it. Throughout the cycle their performance is marked by this quality of immediacy...This is a beautiful, constantly attentive, never over-stated and deeply affecting performance of Winterreise, one for lovers of Schubert's songs to treasure.
2nd June 2013
Prégardien, that most baritonal of tenors, has a beautiful nut-brown voice allied to a Fischer-Dieskau-like intensity of communication. Gees sees to it that the keyboard part for once makes full impact, bringing some remarkably potent gestures to his playing
