Peter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the world's leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On...
When Franz Schubert in 1827 invited a friend to the first performance of his Winterreise, he called it 'a cycle of horrifying songs'. The texts that he had chosen to set were by the poet Wilhelm...
Schubert's music is as naive as the poet's expressions; the emotions contained in the poems are as deeply reflected in his own feelings, and these are so brought out in sound that no-one can sing or...
Schubert,Paul Winterreise CD1. 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...