Schubert: Winterreise D911

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This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest inflections... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th May 2013
Catalogue No: CC72596
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 70 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

September 2013

Choral & Song Choice
Gramophone Magazine

Awards Issue 2013

Editor's Choice

Schubert: Winterreise D911

Work length1:10:27

$24.00

$33.60

$42.00

Christoph Prégardien, Michael Gees

Gute Nacht

Track length5:34

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Die Wetterfahne

Track length1:43

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Gefrorne Tränen

Track length2:13

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Erstarrung

Track length2:56

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Der Lindenbaum

Track length4:42

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Wasserflut

Track length3:41

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Auf dem Flusse

Track length3:25

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Rückblick

Track length2:12

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Irrlicht

Track length2:39

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Rast

Track length3:25

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Frühlingstraum

Track length4:14

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Einsamkeit

Track length2:56

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Die Post

Track length2:22

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Der greise Kopf

Track length2:35

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Die Krähe

Track length1:57

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Letzte Hoffnung

Track length2:08

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Im Dorfe

Track length2:53

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Der stürmische Morgen

Track length0:50

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Täuschung

Track length1:18

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Der Wegweiser

Track length4:01

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Das Wirtshaus

Track length4:54

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Mut

Track length1:20

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Die Nebensonnen

Track length2:30

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Der Leiermann

Track length3:59

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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 the previous critically acclaimed release of “Die Schone Mullerin” the pianist on this hybrid SACD is Michael Gees.

Christoph Prégardien has made almost 200 recordings for all the major labels, amongst which are several for Challenge Classics. These include recordings released in 2008 of Schubert’s “Die Schone Mullerin” with Michael Gees, (CC72292), which was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, and the same composer’s “Schwanengesang” with Andreas Staier (CC72302). Prégardien and Gees also released the award winning ‘Between Life and Death’ in 2009, which featured songs and arias by composers including Mahler, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Brahms, and Mozart.

This recording of Winterreise is also available on DVD and Blu-ray, featuring a studio performance of the cycle, and a documentary with artist interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the studio recording process.

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September 2013

This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest inflections of longing, delight, determination and soul-weariness...Gees has freshly reconsidered so much detail, too

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

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