Schubert: Winterreise

Christa Ludwig (Artist), Franz Schubert (Composer), James Levine (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: James Levine
• Composer: Franz Schubert
• Audio CD (September 19, 1995)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records / Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B000001GNM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,744 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #61 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Ludwig, Christa

Track Listings

1. Winterreise D 911: 1. Gute Nacht

2. Winterreise D 911: 2. Die Wetterfahne

3. Winterreise D 911: 3. Gefrorne Tranen

4. Winterreise D 911: 4. Erstarrung

5. Winterreise D 911: 5. Der Lindenbaum

6. Winterreise D 911: 6. Wasserflut

7. Winterreise D 911: 7. Auf dem Flusse

8. Winterreise D 911: 8. Ruckblick

9. Winterreise D 911: 9. Irrlicht

10. Winterreise D 911: 10. Rast

11. Winterreise D 911: 11. Fruhlingstraum

12. Winterreise D 911: 12. Einsamkeit

13. Winterreise D 911: 13. Die Post

14. Winterreise D 911: 14. Der greise Kopf

15. Winterreise D 911: 15. Die Krahe

16. Winterreise D 911: 16. Letzte Hoffnung

17. Winterreise D 911: 17. Im Dorfe

18. Winterreise D 911: 18. Der sturmische Morgen

19. Winterreise D 911: 19. Tauschung

20. Winterreise D 911: 20. Der Wegweiser

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The female equivalent of Peter Pears in Winterreise, December 31, 2005

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

The famous Winterreise from Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten (Decca, 1963) captured a thrilling musical imaginaiton wedded to an aging, often strained voice. This 1988 version is the female equivalent. Christa Ludwig birngs a lifetime of musicality to bear. She lives these songs from the inside in a way that is only matched by the greatest Schubertians (Patzak, Hotter, Schwarzkopf, Ferrier, Quasthoff, and Pears), but like Pears her voice is aged, with a pronounced thoatiness and wobble.

These flaws are not as handicapping as in Pears's case, but then, Ludwig's interpretation is not as tragic as his, either. She was never the most searching lieder singer in her younger years (accepting her Mahler and Brahms), yet in this case Ludwig reaches as deep as she can--nothing is externalized or operatic. In every way this is a movingly sympathetic account, perhaps all the more in moments of strain, and James Levine accompanies superlatively, falling just shy of the peerless Britten. A treasure.