Zender--Schuberts "Winterreise": Eine komponierte Interpretation

Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Sylvain Cambreling (Conductor), Klangforum Wien (Performer), Christoph Prégardien (Performer), Hans Zender (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Klangforum Wien, Christoph Prégardien
• Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling
• Composer: Franz [Vienna] Schubert
• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Kairos
• ASIN: B00002DDUB
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,785 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

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

2. Die Wetterfahne ('Der Wind spielt mit der Wetterfahne'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/2 (Op. 89/2)

3. Gefror'ne Thränen ('Gefror'ne Tropfen fallen'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/3 (Op. 89/3)

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

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

6. Wasserflut ('Manche Thrän' aus meinen Augen'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/6 (Op. 89/6)

7. Auf dem Flusse ('Der du so lustig rauschtest'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/7 (Op. 89/7)

8. Rückblick ('Es brennt mir unter beiden Sohlen'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/8 (Op. 89/8)

9. Irrlicht ('In die tiefsten Felsengründe'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/9 (Op. 89/9)

10. Rast ('Nun merk' ich erst'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/10 (Op. 89/10)

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Disc: 2

1. Letzte Hoffnung ('Hie und da ist an den Bäumen'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/16 (Op. 89/16)

2. Im Dorfe ('Es bellen die Hunde'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/17 (Op. 89/17)

3. Der stürmische Morgen ('Wie hat der Sturm zerrissen'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/18 (Op. 89/18)

4. Täuschung ('Ein Licht tanzt freundlich'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/19 (Op. 89/19)

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

6. Das Wirtshaus ('Auf einen Totenacher'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/21 (Op. 89/11)

7. Mut ('Fliegt der Schnee'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/22 (Op. 89/22)

8. Die Nebensonnen ('Drei Sonnen sah ich'), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/23 (Op. 89/23)

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

10. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Das Wirtshaus ('Auf einen Totenacher')

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Winterreise. Schubert arr. Zender, December 29, 2003

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MR TIMOTHY MARCHMONT (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zender--Schuberts "Winterreise": Eine komponierte Interpretation (Audio CD)

Upon first listening to Hans Zender's "Composed Interpretation" of this work, I thought: No! This is terrible! A travesty! I want nothing to do with it! But listening on through the recording I soon changed my mind to think: This is very interesting indeed. It is a perfectly valid interpretation, and one I like. Now, I admire and cherish Schubert's great masterpiece the way he wrote it; but an interpretaton such as this, which helps us to understand just how harrowing (schauerlich)Schubert's contemporaries found it, is valid, interesting and very helpful in understanding that there are so many facets to any great work. Some we notice ourselves, and others which have to be pointed out to us, some we might not be comfortable with and even ones which the composer might not have actually intended - just as Brahms made his own version of Haydn's "St Anthony" chorale, and as Ravel superimposed his own personality onto Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition".
Purists will say that Herr Zender is wrong to do this. But I am sure he is not trying to say to us that his verson is an improvement on Schubert's original. He is merely showing us the piece from an unusual and fascinating angle. Hans Zender's "Composed Interpretation" of Schubert's "Winterreise" deserves to be heard by a wide audience. I myself intend to perform it within the next two years.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love has many ways, March 5, 2011

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arcimboldo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zender--Schuberts "Winterreise": Eine komponierte Interpretation (Audio CD)

Hans Zender really loves Schubert's "Winterreise", and it shows. This is a work, (yes, he has worked on the music, with respect, with care, with new ears), not a joke. And it is not destructive, not boring, not pseudo-intellectual. I've found great joy in listening to it, being challenged by the new palette of sounds. And they are always used with imagination and taste.
Isn't it amazing how many ways there are of relating to a song, a melody, an oeuvre?. Other reviewer has felt insulted by this interpretation. Well, his loss. Do approach this record with a fresh, inquiring mind, and you will find that there is enough place in the world for both, the original, much-loved piano and voice version, and this, chamber-orchestrated (and beautifully sung) one. What's more, each one enhances the qualities of the other. Wonderful.

8 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Is this a joke ?, June 16, 2000

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e.chapuis (Lausanne, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zender--Schuberts "Winterreise": Eine komponierte Interpretation (Audio CD)

Speaking about Hans Zender's composed interpretation of Franz Schubert's "Winterreise", the booklet names it a "highly original approach". Actually, when I listen to that, I can only see a poor, vain and boring accoustic illustration of an intemporal masterwork THAT DOESN'T NEED to be illustrated ! "Die Winterreise" is one of the most complete works in the lied's history and I still can't undersand how Christoph Prégardien (who offered us a fantastic interpretation of the "genuine" Winterreise with A. Steier/pianoforte) could agree to get involved into this destructive approach of Schubert. In fact, I find all this really sad because it shows, in a way, the poorness and lack of creativity of a composer compelled to use (and abuse) of other composers' great works to bring new ideas. That's a waste of time, talent and money. And it's not even a joke; all that stuff is very serious, pseudo-intellectual and supposed to be deep.