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Winter Journey
Franz Schubert

Roderick Williams

Winter Journey

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212053126
Catnr: SIGCD 531
Release date: 04 May 2018
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212053126
Catalogue number
SIGCD 531
Release date
04 May 2018
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Schubert’s Winterreise (D.911), in an English version by Jeremy Sams

Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.

Christopher Glynn writes on this new recording:

We hope this Winter Journey can offer English-speaking listeners a way to experience the story’s sense alongside the music’s sound, with something of the same directness that Schubert surely intended when he sat down at the piano in 1827 and sang these songs for the first time to his friends.

This disc is the first in a series of three English language programmes of Schubert’s song cycles. Future releases include The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen) and The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin).

Artist(s)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Roderick Williams is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation and enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses. He has sung world premieres of operas by, among others, David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles by Mozart, Britten and Strauss. He has performed concert repertoire with many of the leading orchestras and ensembles internationally including the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, London Symphony Orchestra and all of the BBC Orchestras. In demand as a recitalist, he has performed at major venues worldwide and festival appearances have included BBC Proms (Last Night 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. In 2016 he won the RPS...
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Roderick Williams is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation and enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses. He has sung world premieres of operas by, among others, David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel as well as roles by Mozart, Britten and Strauss. He has performed concert repertoire with many of the leading orchestras and ensembles internationally including the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, London Symphony Orchestra and all of the BBC Orchestras. In demand as a recitalist, he has performed at major venues worldwide and festival appearances have included BBC Proms (Last Night 2014), Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. In 2016 he won the RPS Singer award and the prize for best choral composition at the British Composer Awards. He was awarded the OBE for services to music in 2017 and was one of the featured soloists at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023.


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Christopher Glynn (piano)

Christopher Glynn is a Grammy award-winning pianist and one of the UK’s best- known accompanists and chamber musicians. He combines his performing life with the role of Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, where he has been praised by The Times as a ‘visionary’ and ‘inspired programmer’. His recital partners have included Sir Thomas Allen, John Mark Ainsley, Benjamin Appl, Fleur Barron, Julian Bliss, Claire Booth, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly, Bernarda Fink, Dame Emma Kirkby, Steven Isserlis, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Ian Partridge, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Kathryn Rudge, Nicky Spence, Bryn Terfel, Sir John Tomlinson, Robin Tritschler, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and many others. He also performs with a wide variety of chamber ensembles, with choirs including The Sixteen,...
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Christopher Glynn is a Grammy award-winning pianist and one of the UK’s best- known accompanists and chamber musicians. He combines his performing life with the role of Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, where he has been praised by The Times as a ‘visionary’ and ‘inspired programmer’.
His recital partners have included Sir Thomas Allen, John Mark Ainsley, Benjamin Appl, Fleur Barron, Julian Bliss, Claire Booth, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly, Bernarda Fink, Dame Emma Kirkby, Steven Isserlis, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Ian Partridge, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Kathryn Rudge, Nicky Spence, Bryn Terfel, Sir John Tomlinson, Robin Tritschler, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and many others. He also performs with a wide variety of chamber ensembles, with choirs including The Sixteen, VOCES8 and the Eric Whitacre Singers, and on historic pianos with artists including Rachel Podger.
Recent highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, Southbank Centre, BBC Proms and tours to Japan, USA, Canada, Brazil, China and South Asia.
In 2015, Chris founded a Lieder in English project to bring classical song to a wider audience, initially by commissioning Jeremy Sams to create new English versions of song cycles by Schubert, Schumann and Wolf, which have been performed widely and are being recorded for Signum Classics.
His many awards include the accompaniment prize in the 2001 Kathleen Ferrier competition, the 2002 Geoffrey Parsons Award and the 2003 Gerald Moore Award. He has made many acclaimed and ground- breaking recordings and in 2021 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

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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.
Winter Journey: Goodnight
05:53
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
02.
Winter Journey: The Weather Vane
01:47
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
03.
Winter Journey: Frozen Tears
02:41
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
04.
Winter Journey: Frozen Solid
03:08
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
05.
Winter Journey: The Linden Tree
04:46
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
06.
Winter Journey: Life Cycle
04:16
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
07.
Winter Journey: On the River
03:34
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
08.
Winter Journey: Turning Back
02:08
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
09.
Winter Journey: Will-o?-the-wisp
02:39
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
10.
Winter Journey: Rest
03:27
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
11.
Winter Journey: Dreaming of Spring
04:00
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
12.
Winter Journey: Loneliness
03:10
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
13.
Winter Journey: The Post
02:16
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
14.
Winter Journey: The Grey Head
03:02
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
15.
Winter Journey: The Crow
01:54
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
16.
Winter Journey: Last Hope
02:06
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
17.
Winter Journey: In the Village
03:18
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
18.
Winter Journey: Stormy Morning
00:52
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
19.
Winter Journey: A Mirage
01:21
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
20.
Winter Journey: The Fingerpost
04:16
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
21.
Winter Journey: No Room at the Inn
04:23
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
22.
Winter Journey: Courage
01:32
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
23.
Winter Journey: Three Suns
02:48
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
24.
Winter Journey: The Hurdy-gurdy Man
04:03
(Franz Schubert) Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
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