Schubert: Die Winterreise [Import]

Peter Anders (Artist), Franz Schubert (Composer), Michael Raucheisen (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Michael Raucheisen
• Composer: Franz Schubert
• Audio CD (September 9, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Myto Records Italy
• ASIN: B000009OGY
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #554,986 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Gute Nacht ('Fremd bin ich eingezogen')

2. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Die Wetterfahne ('Der Wind spielt mit der Wetterfane')

3. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Nicht zu langsam ('Gefror'ne Tropfen fallen')

4. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Erstarrung ('Ich such' im Schnee vergebens')

5. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Der Lindenbaum ('Am Brunnen vor dem Tore')

6. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Wasserflut ('Manche Thran' aus meinen Augen')

7. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Auf Dem Flusse ('Der du so lustig rauschtest')

8. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Ruckblick ('Es brennt mir unter beiden Sohlen')

9. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Irrlicht ('In die tiefsten Felsengrunde')

10. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Rast ('Mun merk' ich erst, wie mud' ich bin')

11. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Fruhlingstraum ('Ich traumte von bunten Blumen')

12. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book I, Einsamkeit ('Wie eine trube Wolke')

13. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Die Post ('Von der Strasse her ein Posthorn klingt')

14. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Der Greise Kopf ('Der Reif hat einen weissen Schein')

15. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Die Krahe ('Eine Drahe war mit mir')

16. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Letzte Hoffnung ('Hie und da ist an den Baumen')

17. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Im Dorfe ('Es bellen die Hunde, es rasseln die Ketten')

18. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Der Strumische Morgen ('Wie hat der Sturm zerrissen')

19. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Tauschung ('Ein Licht tanzt freundlich vor mir her')

20. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Book II, Der Wegweiser ('Was vermeid' ich denn die Wege')

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ultra-agonized Winterreise that holds its unique place, April 11, 2011

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This review is from: Schubert: Die Winterreise (Audio CD)

Peter anders is largely forgotten on this side of the Atlantic, lost between Richard Tauber and Fritz Wunderlich; he was also unlucky in dying at age 46 in 1954 -- there are few modern-sounding recordings form him. but this wartime Winterreise is probably his finest legacy. It forms a pendant to Julius Patzak's equally anguished wartime Schoene Mullerin, and both employ the arch-romantic accompanist Michael Raucheisen. The fact that Anders made his record duing the grim Allied bombing of early 1945 as Berlin was being reduced to rubble opens the issue of how much a performer responds to events around him.

Before leaping to too many conclusions, it's worth noting that Patzak also adopts the same inward, freely phrased style, using a larger, more operatic delivery than we hear in lieder today. both singers are out to portray a suffering Romantic hero who fits the typer perfectly, since by implication both young men die of unrequited love at the end. Anders is no more agonized than patzak, although it must be conceded that many other German interpreters, especially those before the war, gave smoother, more placid and polished accounts. Like Patzak, anders is quite frree with swoops, tears, and outright sobs. I can imagine many listeners being more than a little put off by these histrionics, so perhaps these are specialized recordings. In the case of this Winterreise, the sound is clear by boxy; when Anders sings loudly there is sometimes microphone distortion. But if you actually love this kind of all-in freewheeling approach, there's nothing else quite like his 1945 recording.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a desperate performance!, November 25, 2000

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Chung-Whun Chung (Seoul, Republic of Korea) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schubert: Die Winterreise (Audio CD)

It's a first complete recording sung by tenor. This Liederzyklus(song-cycle) has very desperate and pessimistic atmosphere. Many baritones-Gerhard Husch, Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and many more-were recorded and performed frequently because its dark and heavy colors. But in this recording's singer-Peter Anders, sung very 'sighful' and desperate as baritones. This historical recording was made in January & March 1945 by RRG(Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft) Berlin-the year of Third Reich's collapse. Many musicians in German were killed by bombing-Hans Udo Muller who recorded this song-cycle with Gerhard Husch-, refuged other country-Wilhelm Furtwangler-and escaped to the Reich's capital. Philharmonie and Staatsoper were disappered by bombing but RRG's broadcasting station was survived fortunately. Pianist Michael Raucheisen was held the recording cycle 'Lied der Welt(Song of the World)' from 1940 to 1945(He recorded 2000 songs!). Raucheisen was recorded this work with Hans Hotter in 1942/43, too. In this recording, Anders sung so intensive when we heard. But I think it's an one of the Winterreise's unfogettable recording. This recording came to me scorched Berlin's scene and miserable 'common German people' in 1945. It testify tragic times of World War II obviously.