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Winterreise

Robert Holl / Naum Grubert

Winterreise

Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917201024
Catnr: CC 72010
Release date: 01 January 1995
1 CD
 
Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917201024
Catalogue number
CC 72010
Release date
01 January 1995
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

One of the most famous song cycles is here presented by bass Robert Holl and pianist Naum Grubert. Schubert composed this song cycle in 1827, at the end of his short but very productive life. Just as in his earlier cycle Die schöne Müllerin he uses poems by Wilhelm Müller. Schubert's friends were not convinced of the quality of most of these songs when Schubert performed the cycle for them. However, Schubert answered: 'I like these more than all my other songs and once you will think the same.' And he was right.

A young man is in great despair because his beloved has rejected him. As a consequence he escapes to cold and lonely places. We get to know him as human being full of bitternes, longing, expectations and doubts.

Beroemde symbolische liedcyclus van Franz Schubert
De Winterreise is een van de meest beroemde liedcycli uit de Romantiek. De werken worden hier gepresenteerd door bas Robert Holl en pianist Naum Grubert.

Franz Schubert componeerde deze liedcyclus in 1827 aan het eind van zijn korte maar zeer productieve leven. Net als in zijn eerdere cyclus Die schöne Müllerin gebruikt hij hier gedichten van Wilhelm Müller. Schuberts vrienden waren niet overtuigd van de kwaliteit van de meeste van zijn liederen toen hij ze aan hen liet horen. Desondanks was zijn reactie: ‘Ik houd meer van deze liederen dan van al mijn andere liederen en ooit zul je hetzelfde denken.’ En hij had gelijk.

Het verhaal gaat over een jongeman die in grote wanhoop verkeert omdat zijn geliefde hem heeft afgewezen. Als gevolg hiervan vlucht hij naar koude en afgelegen plekken. We leren deze man kennen als een persoon vol van verbittering, verlangen, verwachtingen en twijfels. De winterse reis die de jongeman maakt kan op symbolische wijze worden gezien als de zoektocht van de mens naar zichzelf.

Robert Holl is bas-bariton en zingt opera, concerten en liederen. Hij werkt regelmatig samen met onder andere het Koninklijk Concertgebouw orkest en treedt over de hele wereld op. Naum Grubert is geboren in Riga en speelt als pianist met verschillende toporkesten, waaronder ook het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest. Hij heeft al vele albums uitgebracht met solowerken op piano. Holl en Grubert hebben samen dit album gemaakt met de beroemde en prachtige liedcyclus van Schubert.

Artist(s)

Robert Holl

After having studied with JanVeth and David Hollestelle, the Rotterdam-born bass-baritone Robert Holl won the first prize at the international singing contest in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1971.Then he studied with Hans Hotter in München and in 1972 he won the ARD contest. From 1973 to 1975 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in München.After a period of intensive concert activities the artist regained his interest in opera productions and he was a guest at the Viennese State Opera, the Brussels Opera and the Zürich Opera House, where he sang parts like Speaker and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), La Roche (Capriccio), Assur (Semiramide), Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Amfortas (Parsifal) and Robert (Schubert’s Des Teufels Lustschloß). In the summer of 1996 Robert...
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After having studied with JanVeth and David Hollestelle, the Rotterdam-born bass-baritone Robert Holl won the first prize at the international singing contest in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1971.Then he studied with Hans Hotter in München and in 1972 he won the ARD contest.
From 1973 to 1975 he was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in München.After a period of intensive concert activities the artist regained his interest in opera productions and he was a guest at the Viennese State Opera, the Brussels Opera and the Zürich Opera House, where he sang parts like Speaker and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), La Roche (Capriccio), Assur (Semiramide), Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Amfortas (Parsifal) and Robert (Schubert’s Des Teufels Lustschloß).
In the summer of 1996 Robert Holl made his debut at the Bayreuther Festspielen, as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He has worked with famous conductors, like Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein, Chailly, Frühbeck de Burgos, Giulini, Haitink, Harnoncourt, Jochum, Karajan, Leinsdorf, Prêtre and Stein, as well as with almost all the great orchestras of Europe and the US. He was also active as a singer of lieder (the emphasis on German and Russian repertoire), with partners like Rudolf Jansen, Oleg Maisenberg and András Schiff.
Lieder nights often lead the musician to the great music centres of Europe, as well as Israel and the United States. Robert Holl is a regular guest at great international festivals in Europe. On the invitation of Svatoslav Richter he took part in the ‘Moskovian Winters’ and the festival of Tours several times.
He leads various masterclasses and has made numerous television and gramaphone recor- dings with famous conductors. Some of his own compositions (lieder and works for piano) have been recorded on CD. Robert Holl is the artistic leader of the Schubertiaden in the Netherlands and Austria, as well as of the ‘Week of Romantic Music’, which has been held at Grafenegg Castle every two years since 1986.
Because of great merit for the Austrian music life Robert Holl was awarded by the Austrian Gouvernment in October 1990 the honorary title of ‘Wiener Kammersänger’. In 1997 he became honorary member of the Company of Music Friends in Vienna.
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Composer(s)

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the...
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert already died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic eras and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.
It was in the genre of the Lied that Schubert made his most indelible mark. Prior to Schubert's influence, Lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities engendered by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism. Schubert expanded the potentialities of the genre like no other composer before.

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01.
Winterreise, D. 911: Gute Nacht
06:25
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
02.
Winterreise, D. 911: Die Wetterfahne
01:48
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Gefrorne Tränen
02:35
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Erstarrung
02:30
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Der Lindenbaum
05:08
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Wasserflut
05:16
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Auf dem Flusse
03:18
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Rückblick
01:58
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Irrlicht
02:55
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Rast
04:00
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Frühlingstraum
04:21
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Einsamkeit
02:53
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Die Post
02:13
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Der greise Kopf
03:32
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Die Krähe
01:48
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Letzte Hoffnung
02:07
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Im Dorfe
03:08
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
18.
Winterreise, D. 911: Der stürmische Morgen
01:02
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Täuschung
01:42
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Der Wegweiser
04:41
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Das Wirtshaus
04:28
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Mut
01:30
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Die Nebensonnen
02:55
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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Winterreise, D. 911: Der Leiermann
04:01
(Franz Schubert) Robert Holl, Naum Grubert
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