Introducing Winterreise: A New Approach
458 views · Published 3 October 2018 · 2:44 · Indexed 29 September 2026
Channel: ABC Classic · 2018 · Music
Schubert's Winterreise: drama or beauty - or both? David Greco and Erin Helyard talk about where you can get to when you start from the text. Available on CD, digital download and streaming services here: https://abcmusic.lnk.to/WinterreiseID David Greco and Erin Helyard present the first Australian recording of Schubert’s masterpiece on period instruments. Erin Helyard and David Greco present a Winterreise that's different from any you have heard before. This is how the work might have sounded to Schubert, a recording informed by scholarship around 19th-century performance techniques, and the different vocal traditions and pianos that existed then. But far from a dry, academic exercise, David and Erin strip away the stuffy, canonised aura of this famous work, presenting a Winterreise sung by a young man in the full fervour of love and an all-consuming passion. This is a performance that takes you inside a work you’ve listened to many times before – but never truly heard.
