Ihre Favourite Winterreise

[Leo K.]

I am currently enjoying this recording with Benjamin Brun and Karola Theill on Hanssler (2021). I can't find much online about it, but I like the piano sound and voice. It's not the intimate and close sound like Hotter with Gerald Moore, but it moves along well, perhaps I like this more declamatory style than I realized.

[Mandryka]

Matthias Horn/Christoph Ullrich.

At first I thought this was just yet another excellent interpretation. Then I heard what they make of Die Nebensonnen and decided to make a post, because it's amazing! Der Leiermann isn't chopped liver either.

[Kalevala]

Matthias Horn/Christoph Ullrich.

At first I thought this was just yet another excellent interpretation. Then I heard what they make of Die Nebensonnen and decided to make a post, because it's amazing! Der Leiermann isn't chopped liver either.

Glad that you are still enjoying your traversal!

K

[Mandryka]

Henk Neven and Hans Eijsackers. This is a studio recording made for BBC Music Magazine, there are later concert performances online by the looks of things.

My ears first pricked up in Auf dem flusse (7) - such colour in the voice! From then on it's impossible to stop listening. Eisjackers is incisive too.

[Mandryka]

Henk Neven and Hans Eijsackers. This is a studio recording made for BBC Music Magazine, there are later concert performances online by the looks of things.

My ears first pricked up in Auf dem flusse (7) - such colour in the voice! From then on it's impossible to stop listening. Eisjackers is incisive too.

More on this. It is really candid - a glimpse into the mind of a man who's hopelessly stuck, who doesn't know what to do. Painful to hear in a way.  Hotter tried to do this, but Neven is more text aware, more varying. An essential Winterreise performance IMO.

[Mandryka]

Bass baritone sounds interesting.

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/33/000209833.pdf

Jakob Bloch Jesperen is a declamatory singer with a career in baroque music, he seems to have worked a lot with Lars Ulrich Mortensen. The voice is low,  but so rich in inflections and colours that it would be wrong to call it dark, I've not found any other details about Sharon Prushamsky. She's playing a very authentic copy of a Viennese piano from Schubert's time, lots of pedals to change timbres - very nice. She uses them tastefully - it's dramatic but not melodramatic.

This interpretation is wide awake and often text sensitive.

OK sound, nice booklet too.