Schubert's Winter Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schubert's Winter Journey write by Ian Bostridge. This book was released on 2015-01-27. Schubert's Winter Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the world’s most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey (Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes—literary, historical, psychological—that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert’s life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic—these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour—it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions—loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope—until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world’s greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert’s wanderer our mirror.
Retracing a Winter's Journey
Retracing a Winter's Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Retracing a Winter's Journey write by Susan Youens. This book was released on 2013-01-15. Retracing a Winter's Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too," Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. Susan Youens looks not only at Schubert's music but at the poetry, drawn from the works of Wilhelm Müller, who once wrote in his diary, "perhaps there is a kindred spirit somewhere who will hear the tunes behind the words and give them back to me!" Youens maintains that Müller, in depicting the wanderings of the alienated lover, produced poetry that was simple but not simple-minded, poetry that embraced simplicity as part of its meaning. In her view, Müller used the ruder folk forms to give his verse greater immediacy, to convey more powerfully the wanderer's complex inner state. Youens addresses many different aspects of Winterreise: the cultural milieu to which it belonged, the genesis of both the poetry and the music, Schubert's transformation of poetic cycle into music, the philosophical dimension of the work, and its musical structure.
Schubert's Winterreise
Schubert's Winterreise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schubert's Winterreise write by Franz Schubert. This book was released on 2003. Schubert's Winterreise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book/CD package guides readers and listeners on a journey through Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, in which the composer set the poetry of Wilhelm Muller to music. The complete text of the 24 poems is presented in both German and English, with 116 b&w photographs of winter scenes on the facing pages. An introductory essay by Susan Youens (musicology, U. of Notre Dame) offers a critical examination of the song cycle. The music CD features a new recording of Winterreise, performed by baritone Paul Rowe and pianist Martha Fischer. Oversize: 10.25x10.25". Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise'
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise' write by Marjorie W. Hirsch. This book was released on 2021-02-04. The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.
A Singer's Notebook
A Singer's Notebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Singer's Notebook write by Ian Bostridge. This book was released on 2015-04-06. A Singer's Notebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Singer's Notebook by Ian Bostridge, of whom The New Yorker said, 'He is not a good singer; he is a great one.'
