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Winterreise (after Franz Schubert) | Oehms OC1898

Winterreise (after Franz Schubert)

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Label: Oehms

Cat No: OC1898

Barcode: 4260330918987

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th October 2020

Contents

Artists

Axel Wolf (lute, theorbo)
Hugo Siegmeth (soprano & tenor saxophone, bass clarinet)
Stefan Hunstein (narrator)

Works

Schubert, Franz

Winterreise, op.89, D911

Artists

Axel Wolf (lute, theorbo)
Hugo Siegmeth (soprano & tenor saxophone, bass clarinet)
Stefan Hunstein (narrator)

About

This interpretation of Winterreise is certainly unusual. Here, there is no singer; instead, the text is recited. The music still allows Schubert’s themes and motifs to ring out, but it treats them with complete freedom.

The instrumental timbres are also different: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and bass clarinet exchange with lute and theorbo. Axel Wolf and Hugo Siegmeth join narrator Stefan Hunstein on an introspective journey that is finely connected, both musically and interpretively.

Winterreise is about human existence, about a redefinition of one’s position after a setback, when someone who has been rejected reflects on his life, surrounded by cold and darkness.

This recording reflects an interplay between faithfulness to the original and freedom of expression, creating a personal world of winter travel that resembles a musical-text radio play.

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