Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 Roderick Williams & Iain Burnside

• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911:
• 1 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 1, Gute Nacht 05:28
• 2 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 2, Die Wetterfahne 01:58
• 3 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen 02:20
• 4 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 4, Erstarrung 03:16
• 5 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 5, Der Lindenbaum 04:48
• 6 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 6, Wasserflut 03:50
• 7 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 7, Auf dem Flusse 03:27
• 8 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 8, Rückblick 02:08
• 9 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 9, Irrlicht 02:32
• 10 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 10, Rast 03:25
• 11 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 11, Frühlingstraum 03:52
• 12 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 12, Einsamkeit 02:37
• 13 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 13, Die Post 02:17
• 14 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 14, Der greise Kopf 02:51
• 15 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 15, Die Krähe 02:05
• 16 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung 02:05
• 17 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 17, Im Dorfe 03:30
• 18 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen 00:55
• 19 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 19, Täuschung 01:28
• 20 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 20, Der Wegweiser 04:17
• 21 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 21, Das Wirtshaus 04:18
• 22 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 22, Mut 01:30
• 23 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 23, Die Nebensonnen 02:53
• 24 Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 24, Der Leiermann 03:42
• Total Runtime 01:11:32

Info for Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911

Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside complete their survey of Schubert’s song cycles with this recording of Winterreise. Composed in the late 1820s, towards the end of Schubert’s tragically short life, Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller and describes a traveller leaving the town which was the home of the object of his unrequited love, to embark on a long journey, through a chill, wintry landscape, which ends in near-suicidal despair.

This recording represents the culmination of a project that started back in 2015, when Williams accepted the challenge to prepare and perform all three song cycles in one season at the Wigmore Hall in London. Turning this challenge into a shared learning experience, Williams lead workshops and study days as well as numerous performances in a variety of venues. His blog covers the entire project and is a fascinating document well-worth reading: rwschubertcycleproject.blogspot.com/

As in the case of the previous instalments (Schwanengesang and Die schöne Müllerin), also recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, Roderick Williams is accompanied by Iain Burnside, who plays a Steinway Model D.

Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano

Roderick Williams
encompasses a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in recital. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK opera houses and is particularly associated with the baritone roles of Mozart. He has also sung world premières of operas by, among others, David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel.

Roderick Williams sings concert repertoire with all the BBC orchestras, and many other ensembles including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Philharmonia, London Sinfonietta, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé, Britten Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment. He has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie- Orchester Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Bach Collegium Japan, Tonkünstler Orchester, Cincinnati Symphony, Music of the Baroque Chicago, Virginia Arts Festival, San Francisco Symphony, Utah Symphony, amongst others. His many festival appearances include the BBC Proms (including the Last Night in 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne.

He is an accomplished recital artist who can be heard at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, LSO St Luke’s, the Perth Concert Hall, Oxford Lieder Festival, London Song Festival and the Musikverein, Vienna.

Roderick Williams is also a composer and has had works premièred at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio. In April 2016 he was Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder and in May 2016 won the RPS Singer award. His numerous recordings include two of Albion Records’ earlier albums: ALB001 The Sky shall be our Roof and ALBCD002 Kissing her Hair.

Iain Burnside
is an acclaimed vocal accompanist. Artists with whom he has collaborated include Dame Margaret Price, Susan Chilcott, Galina Gorchakova, Ailish Tynan, Susan Bickley, Ann Murray, John Mark Ainsley, Roderick Williams and Bryn Terfel. His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Judith Weir with a special place reserved for the highways and byways of English Song, as much praised CDs of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth, Gurney, Parry and Vaughan Williams have all proved. Delphian has just released Burnside’s complete Rachmaninov songs with seven outstanding Russian artists. He also enjoys a close association with Rosenblatt Recitals, both on stage and in the studio, in collaboration with Opus Arte.

He is a Sony Award-winning broadcaster and a master programmer, curating various festivals and recital series. In association with London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Burnside has written a number of highly individual theatre pieces, performed at the Barbican Centre, Milton Court and the Cheltenham Festival. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, has been commissioned as a radio play as part of the BBC’s World War One season. In demand as teacher and animateur, Burnside also works at the Royal Opera House and the National Opera Studio. He is International Visiting Artist at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.

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