Schubert: Winterreise / Watson, McMahon

$9.49
Label
Leaf Music
Release Date
February 25, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Franz Schubert
    • PERFORMER
      Nathaniel Watson, Michael Mcmahon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 25, 2022
    • UPC
      615499526742
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LM253
    • LABEL
      Leaf Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

Baritone Nathaniel Watson and pianist Michael McMahon, both based in Montreal, give us their rendition of Franz Schubert's monumental song cycle Winterreise, written in 1827, the year before Schubert's tragic early death. The 24 settings of poems of Wilhelm Müller are a journey deep into the psyche of a young man, unlucky in love, who sets out with neither friend nor destination, in the dead of winter, an epic figure in the dawning of German Romanticism. In this recording, also made in winter (and during a pandemic), Watson and McMahon share their experience and lifelong passion for Schubert. The composer, who had already composed some 600 Lieder in his short life, confessed to his close circle of friends that these songs moved him more than all the others.