For their second duo album, Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans and Italian pianist Paolo Giacometti chose to record one of the pinnacles of the Lied repertoire - Schubert's Winterreise. Winner of the 2013 Prix d'Amis of The Netherlands Opera, Oliemans explained, "As each year passes [Winterreise] has become a work to turn back to again, to measure myself against, to immerse myself in; what is more, as soon as the hurdy-gurdy man has turned his handle for the last time, it seems to invite me to open the score once more at page one and try yet again to conquer this magic mountain of the repertoire."