Track Listing

1. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 1. Gute Nacht
2. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 2. Die Wetterfahne
3. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 3. Gefrorne Tr�nen
4. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 4. Erstarrung
5. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 5. Der Lindenbaum
6. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 6. Wasserflut
7. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 7. Auf dem Flusse
8. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 8. R�ckblick
9. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 9. Irrlicht
10. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 10. Rast
11. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 11. Fr�hlingstraum
12. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 1. No. 12. Einsamkeit
13. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 13. Die Post
14. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 14. Der greise Kopf
15. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 15. Die Kr�he
16. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 16. Letzte Hoffnung
17. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 17. Im Dorfe
18. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 18. Der st�rmische Morgen
19. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 19. T�uschung
20. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 20. Der Wegweiser
21. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 21. Das Wirtshaus
22. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 22. Mut!
23. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 23. Die Nebensonnen
24. Winterreise, song cycle for voice & piano, D. 911 (Op. 89): Part 2. No. 24. Der Leiermann

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #212191 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-17
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Simply sublime ~ the only Winterreise you'll ever need
Christoph Prégardien's Winterreise is the one to own. He sings with great feeling - all the emotions are here - sadness, love, anger, despair, resignation, regret, bitterness, hope and hopelessness. Prégardien uses the different registers of his voice with great skill and he blends head voice, falsetto and chest voices with great skill, but he allows the different colours to come out and bring great expressiveness to the music.

Andreas Staier is an excellent fortepianist and he brings great skill and wisdom to his performance. The instrument used, like Christoph Prégardien's voice, has a great range of colour and expressiveness.

This is a nearly perfect recording. It is one of the most perfect recordings of music on CD I have ever heard and it is a treasured part of my collection.

I recommend this disc to all.

A marvelous interpretation!
My daughter made me a gift of this recording and all I can say is: What a wonderful, marvelous interpretation and recording! What a glorious singer! What a perfect pianist! This deserves more than 5 stars! Highly reccomended!

The why of the fortepiano
Composers like Mozart, Haydn or Schubert were not having in mind a 20th century Steinway when they wrote their pieces. It is true that the modern piano is far more expressive than a fortepiano, but the gain is a selfish one, for it suffices to hear Mozart's Piano Concertos in modern and period instruments to realize that the work loses as a whole. What is true for Mozart is no less true for Schubert, and period instruments performances render more delicately the composer's orginal message. This however does not justify bad playing, and this performance is impeccable.