Month: July 2020

Schubert’s masterpiece, a song cycle portraying the physical and spiritual journey of a poet who searches through the nature of the creation the soul of the art … Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, completed in 1827, is a set of 24 songs for voice and piano composed almost entirely using minor keys, which unlike the warm sounds of major keys often sound sad to our ears. Its mournful character reflects some of the personal trauma that Schubert himself was experiencing at the time. After years of a rather debauched life … Schubert-Die WinterreiseRead more

A dozen of the best Schubert Lieder to take the listener beyond the three great song cycles Turning poems into precious music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), in a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber There is something lodged deep in the English spirit which resists the prospect of an evening spent listening to Schubert’s Lieder. Even for those who respond to the beauties of his music, the thought of all that “heavy German poetry”, combined with the generally low … Jonathan Gaisman – Enchanted garden of songRead more