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彼得．馬替 男中音
大衛．尼爾森 鋼琴
Peter Mattei, baritone
Lars David Nilsson, piano
Peter Matteihas 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 the present disc he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon: the traveller in Schubert's Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Muller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle, Die schoneMullerin. Muller's texts revolve around a young man who after being rejected leaves his village and heads into the desolate, snowy countryside. In the course of the cycle he experiences loss and an aching loneliness interrupted by fleeting glimpses of hope, but ultimately the landscape through which he is moving is coloured by alienation and despair.
Muller died thirty-two years old in 1827, the very year in which Winterreisewas composed –and Schubert himself died the following year, still making revisions to the last of the songs while on his deathbed. When Schubert invited his closest friends to a gathering in order to listen to the cycle he called the songs 'gruesome', and according to one witness the audience was shocked by their sombre mood. In this recording, Matteibrings all his interpretive skills to bear. He is supported by the piano of Lars David Nilsson, which reinforces the different moods and characters of the twenty-four songs and often assumes the role of a narrator, alongside the singer.
Franz Schubert (1797—1828)
Winterreise, D 911
to texts by Wilhelm Muller
1 ) Gute Nacht
2 ) Die Wetterfahne
3 ) Gefrorne Tranen
4 ) Erstarrung
5 ) Der Lindenbaum
6 ) Wasserflut
7 ) Auf dem Flusse
8 ) Ruckblick
9 ) Irrlicht
10 ) Rast
11 ) Fruhlingstraum
12 ) Einsamkeit
13 ) Die Post
14 ) Der greise Kopf
15 ) Die Krahe
16 ) Letzte Hoffnung
17 ) Im Dorfe
18 ) Der sturmische Morgen
19 ) Tauschung
20 ) Der Wegweiser
21 ) Das Wirtshaus
22 ) Mut!
23 ) Die Nebensonnen
24 ) Der Leiermann |
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