Future releases include The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen) and The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin).Copyright © 2002-20 Presto Classical Limited. Some obvious rhymes and perceived instances of padding apart, [Sams's] achievement is considerable. Among musical compositions of the highest order connected with the figure 24, the songs of Winterreise occupy a special place. The major events of the story are all over before the cycle begins. 2009

The Winter Journey that Schubert played and sang that night is a portrait of brokenness.

They do not relate to the complete set of 24 major and minor keys as do Bach’s Preludes and Fugues of the Welltempered Clavier or Chopin’s Préludes. He carried on composing though with the same unrelenting rate, writing his beautiful cycle of 24 songs, ‘Die Winterreise’ (The Winter Journey) towards the end of his life. Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Schubert: Winter Journey Roderick Williams Classical 2018; Listen on Apple Music.

Based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller and composed by Schubert in 1827, Winter Journey is a story of unrequited love. item 1 Schubert: Winterreise (CD, Virgin) Thomas Allen Winter Journey - Schubert: Winterreise (CD, Virgin) Thomas Allen Winter Journey 2013 Williams invests that liquid voice with deep intelligence and intensity, while Glynn’s contributions are eloquently gauged.Few English-speaking Schubertians sing German as idiomatically as Williams delivers Jeremy Sams’s lucid, poetic version here...The immediacy of the storytelling is immaculate — even diehards should give it a try. Radio All rights reserved. The cycle takes around 70 minutes to perform and comprises settings of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller (1794-1827) that deal with unrequited love, alienation, atheism and the contemplation of suicide. Buy Schubert Winter Journey by Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn, Schubert, Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn from Amazon's Classical Music Store. Listen on Apple Music.

2005 EDITORS’ NOTES. Winter Journey, D. 911 (Winterreise, Sung in English) Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.“We hope this Winter Journey can offer English-speaking listeners a way to experience the story’s sense alongside the music’s sound, with something of the same directness that Schubert surely intended when he sat down at the piano in 1827 and sang these songs for the first time to his friends.”This disc is the first in a series of three English language programmes of Schubert’s song cycles. It tells the story of a wanderer who has been unlucky in love as he sets out on a long and lonely journey through a bleak wintry landscape that mirrors the state of his own inner world. Recorded in St Silas Church, Kentish Town from 13-15 February 2017Roderick Williams (baritone) & Christopher Glynn (piano)Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. For You Williams invests that liquid voice with deep intelligence and intensity, while Glynn’s contributions...Some obvious rhymes and perceived instances of padding apart, [Sams's] achievement is considerable. Though the songs are full of the poet’s sadness at being rejected by his beloved, they also explore the poet’s connection to nature and the passing of the seasons.