Three times seven Songs after Schumann and Schubert. If you have ever endured a stuffy song cycle wishing that it would finally end, perhaps this is for you.

 

For Stefan Winter as a child, it was certainly his experience and ever since he has wanted to use an untrained voice to take these songs back to melody and meaning. The effect of not using a trained singer, and especially an actress, is to focus on the words in an unexpectedly moving arrangement of Schubert and Schumann's songs. They are sung by the acclaimed actresss Barbara Sukova, huge in Germany, who has appeared in Fassbinder's Lola, Lars von Trier's Europa, many stage productions and this year will appear at the Salzburg Festival as a ‘classical’ singer.

 

1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe - Heine/Schumann)
2. Gute Nacht (Die Winterreise - Müller/ Schubert)
3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne (Dichterliebe)
4. Im Dorfe (Die Winterreise)
5. Gretchen am Spinnrade - Goethe/Schubert
6. Lied der Mignon - Goethe/Schubert
7. Meeresstille - Goethe/Schubert
8. Ich grolle nicht (Dichterliebe)
9. Letzte Hoffnung (Die Winterreise)
10. Die Nebensonnen (Die Winterreise)
11. Rastlose Liebe - Goethe/Schubert
12. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet (Dichterliebe)
13. Der Erlkönig - Goethe/Schubert
14. Der Doppelgänger - Heine/Schubert
15. Der Leiermann (Die Winterreise)
16. Kennst du das Land? - Goethe/Schumann
17. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen (Dichterliebe)
18. Ständchen - Rellstab/Schubert
19. Heidenröslein Goethe/Schubert/Schumann
20.Wehmut (Liederkreis op. 39 - Eichendorff/Schumann)
21. Die alten, bösen Lieder (Dichterliebe)

 

All compositions adapted and re-composed by Reinbert de Leeuw