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Schubert - Die Winterreise, Piano Sonata D.840 [FLAC] (Schreier, Richter) (Size: 492.62 MB)
Description Peter Schreier / Sviatoslav Richter - Schubert: Winterreise / Piano Sonata D840 (Decca 478 1714) Label: Decca Cat. No.: 478 1714 Medium: CD No. Discs: 2 "I had great expectations of this issue, and on the whole they have been amply fulfilled. As one might expect the performance is highly individual, two very special interpreters giving us a totally gripping, positive account of a cycle that has recently received some rather too careful readings. Schreier and Richter conceive the work in almost a solid span of concentration and that is how it should be, helped by being caught at a live performance." - Gramophone. By Mr Swallow on 25 Sept. 2009 Format: Audio CD This is the greatest performance on disc, a mesmerising performance of Schubert's greatest song cycle, with two great artists striking ice cold sparks (if such a thing is possible) off each other. Schreier had reached a stage in his career where he could do what he wanted with these songs. His voice has a weary, half-crazed grey hue which matches the predicament of the traveller and Richter's beautiful accompaniment compels attention from the first chords. It is truly a wonderful journey marred only by recorded live before an audience who seem in the last stages of a flu pandemic. The coughs and splutters are horribly disracting at times. If these worry you then choose Schrier's later version on Decca, good but without quite the sense of occasion as this one, coughs and all. But then, this is a winter's journey! The coupling is one of Richter's most provoking sonata performances, with the first movement tempi stretched to breaking point. Such is the concentration that one is completely taken up with it - repeat and all. Incredible! Richter sticks to Schubert's score and the sonata ends (unfinished) in mid air. Sharing Widget |