Schubert: Die Winterreise

 
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die Winterreise
Werner Gura (tenor) Christoph Berner (pianoforte Ronish)

[ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 21 July 2017

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"Werner Güra's light, lyrical tenor is in immaculately nurtured voice for this deeply considered performance...Both Güra and Berner are acutely sensitive to the shifts of pace both within and between songs."
(BBC Music Award WINNER 2011 - Vocal)

"this Winterreise looks set to rival the most distinguished accounts by lyric tenors...[Gura] uses a wide palette of vocal and expressive colours to make this Winter's Journey a spiritual and emotional trajectory...Despite his tenor's essential lyrical beauty, he can convey rage and ugliness as well" Sunday Times, 7th March 2010 ****

"this very fine account of Die Winterreise completes what has become one of the most distinguished recent triptychs of Schubert song cycles on disc...Güra's sensitivity brings the text to life in a chillingly immediate way, while the pianist Christoph Berner understands his part in the dramatic scheme exactly." The Guardian, 18th March 2010 ****

"Werner Güra's light, lyrical tenor is in immaculately nurtured voice for this deeply considered performance...And it's fascinating to hear what Güra makes of Schubert's ubiquitous line-repetitions, adding a shadow of tremulous dread here, a redoubling of rage and a bite of irony there. Both Güra and Berner are acutely sensitive to the shifts of pace both within and between songs."
(BBC Music Award WINNER 2011 - Vocal)

Winterreise, composed in 1827, is the embodiment of Romanticism in music, the ultimate expression of 'Sehnsucht', that existential longing which haunts the creations of this artistic movement in all its forms. This 'winter journey' presented by Werner Güra and Christoph Berner is also a journey in time, using a Rönisch fortepiano.