Schubert's Winter Journey : anatomy of an obsession / Ian Bostridge.
2015
782.47 S384b 2015
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Title
Schubert's Winter Journey : anatomy of an obsession / Ian Bostridge.
Author
Edition
First United States edition.
ISBN
9780307961631 (hardcover) :
030796163X (hardcover)
9780307961648 (ebook)
030796163X (hardcover)
9780307961648 (ebook)
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 502 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 19 cm
Call Number
782.47 S384b 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)880689816
(OCoLC)880689816
(OCoLC)880689816
Summary
Draws on the author's first-hand experience with Franz Schubert's "Winterreise," his musical knowledge, and his training as a scholar to explore the meanings of the songs comprising this masterpiece, one of the greatest pieces of music ever written for the male solo voice.
"An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey(Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes--literary, historical, psychological--that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert's life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic--these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour--it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions--loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope--until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world's greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert's wanderer our mirror." -- Publisher's description.
"An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle, Schubert's Winter Journey(Winterreise), by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themes--literary, historical, psychological--that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the last months of the young Schubert's life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconic--these twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hour--it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness. As he wanders away from the village and into the empty countryside, he experiences a cascade of emotions--loss, grief, anger, and acute loneliness, shot through with only fleeting moments of hope--until the landscape he inhabits becomes one of alienation and despair. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the world. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work (he has sung it more than one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited, his biography and psychological makeup, the historical and political pressures within which he became one of the world's greatest composers, and the continuing resonances and affinities that our ears still detect today, making Schubert's wanderer our mirror." -- Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-500).
Formatted Contents Note
Gute Nacht = Good night
Die Wetterfahne = The weathervane
Gefrorne Tränen = Frozen tears
Erstarrung = Frozen stiff
Der Lindenbaum = The linden tree
Wasserflut = Flood
Auf dem Flusse = On the stream
Rückblick = Backwards glance
Irrlicht = Will-o'-the-wisp
Rast = Rest
Frühlingstraum = Dream of spring
Einsamkeit = Loneliness
Die Post = The post
Der greise Kopf = The old man's head
Die Krähe = The crow
Letzte Hoffnung = Last hope
Im Dorfe = In the village
Der stürmische Morgen = The stormy morning
Täuschung = Delusion
Der Wegweiser = The signpost
Das Wirtshaus = The inn
Mut = Courage
Die Nebensonnen = The mock suns
Die Leiermann = The hurdy-gurdy man
Aftermath.
Die Wetterfahne = The weathervane
Gefrorne Tränen = Frozen tears
Erstarrung = Frozen stiff
Der Lindenbaum = The linden tree
Wasserflut = Flood
Auf dem Flusse = On the stream
Rückblick = Backwards glance
Irrlicht = Will-o'-the-wisp
Rast = Rest
Frühlingstraum = Dream of spring
Einsamkeit = Loneliness
Die Post = The post
Der greise Kopf = The old man's head
Die Krähe = The crow
Letzte Hoffnung = Last hope
Im Dorfe = In the village
Der stürmische Morgen = The stormy morning
Täuschung = Delusion
Der Wegweiser = The signpost
Das Wirtshaus = The inn
Mut = Courage
Die Nebensonnen = The mock suns
Die Leiermann = The hurdy-gurdy man
Aftermath.
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