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Schubert travels to the end of the incredible

2020-02-28T16:45:37.210Z


CLASSIC.- The increasingly numerous reappropriations of Winterreise illustrate the fascination of artists and writers for this cycle of lieder.


Noëmi Waysfeld steps forward. Drop the tarp covering the piano. Rid of its shroud, fallen with the lightness of a film of snow, the Steinway reveals its brilliant blackness. In the background, the words said scroll across the screen. Raindrops slide down in tears on a ghostly face, soon replaced by shapes with groaning contours evoking the silhouettes of Munch. Their unspoken sounds to our senses like a litany. "I am there, in your head, and will not let go," seems to say the enigmatic phrase of the poet Wilhem Müller. "Foreigner I have come / Foreigner I am leaving". Everything seems to be stated in these two lines, an introduction to the most famous and most inspiring of Schubert's lieder cycles: his Winterreise .

This show, like the record, is the story of a common fascination. The fascination for a cycle that has accompanied us both since childhood

Noëmi Waysfeld

This month, the “Winter Journey” is the subject of three discographic news. Three reappropriations. The Voyager Quartet (Solo Musica, released February 7), first of all. A Munich ensemble whose violist, Andreas Höricht, has transcribed twelve of

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