Schubert - Winterreise (baritone & string quartet)
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Label: Muso
Cat No: MU035
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th February 2020
Contents
Artists
Alain Buet (baritone)Quatuor Les Heures du jour
Works
Winterreise, op.89, D911 (arr. Gilone Gaubert for voice and string quartet)Artists
Alain Buet (baritone)Quatuor Les Heures du jour
About
However, in this transcription by Gilone Gaubert, the wager has paid off and a new colour has been given to Schubert’s absolute masterpiece. The passage from piano to strings does not imply merely a change of tone-colour: if the keyboard’s percussive quality is lost it is in favour not only of the ability to sustain a note but also to vary its colour and intensity during its duration, resulting in very different phrasings and effects. It is thus a transformed expressivity that guides this transcription, as well as a modification of the overall resonance.
After a reserved reception by the first listeners to his Winterreise, surprised as they were by the dark, lugubrious tone of his last cycle, Schubert replied, “I like these songs more than all the others, and soon you will like them too”. History, as we know, proved him right.
The warm, clear voice of the baritone Alain Buet, accompanied by the Quartet Les Heures du jour, invites you to delve into this world premiere in a rediscovery of no doubt the most accomplished cycle in the repertory of the lied.
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