Recognized as one of schuberts masterpieces, this song cycle tells the story of a wandering miller who follows a brook to a mill and meets the beautiful millers daughter the title. Christoph pregardien is one of the most established singers of our time and has especially excelled in his interpretations of german romantic lieder. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Recorded over a series of live dates, maltman has collaborated with one of the worlds foremost authorities on the lieder repertoire, pianoaccompanist graham johnson. Slovak tenor pavol breslik has done nothing better than this beautiful recording of schuberts great study of betrayal, loss and farewell. When anton diabelli in 1830, one and a half years after schuberts death, acquired the rights of the cycle, he strove to improve the edition. Darker voices than bresliks have become fashionable in the work of late, but this is immaculate lieder singing, as much about the text as the melodic line, but never fracturing the latter with overemphasis or intrusive intervention. He spent much of his life redefining the art song, breaking it free of the strophic form in favor of a more dramatic, durchkomponiert through composed style. It is the earliest extended song cycle to be widely performed. Beethovens cycle is one continuous movement with several contrasting sections, along the lines of a sung fantasia, in which music from the. Cd 16 winterreise hampsonbaritone wolfgang sawallisch piano.
Schubert spent part of the summer in the hospital and probably started workwhile still a patienton his most ambitious opera, fierrabras. Although arguably slightly past his peak in the recording of the latter, fischerdieskau was at the height of his. Peter schreier 29 july 1935 25 december 2019 was a german tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor. The swiss tenors artistry as a lieder interpreter evolved in close partnership with his former teacher helmut deutsch, and over recent years he has positioned himself among the.
Considered one of schuberts most important works, it is the first of his two seminal cycles the other being his later winterreise, and a pinnacle of lied. He became a tenor, focused on concert and lieder singing, well known internationally for the. The origin of the story about the beautiful maid of the mill is difficult to trace. He was regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century. Peter schreiertenor siegfried kurzconductor staatskapelle dresden 1968. In many details, the first edition of the cycle, which appeared in 1824, is unreliable and this was soon apparent. Theyre not going for top 40, and its entirely acoustic, with guitar, cello, brass natural trumpet, tuba, etc. Cette nouvelle va marquer le debut dune periode decriture particulierement foisonnante. Here is the german text and english translation, which can be found on. Dietrich fischerdieskaubaritone gerald moorepiano 1961. About franz schubert 1797 1828 and the song cycle franz peter schubert lived from 1797 to 1828 in and around the austrian capital of vienna.
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