Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"
by
Susan Youens
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
I like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the first to hear his song cycle, Winterreise. These lieder have always found admiring audiences, but the poetry he chose to set them to has been widely regarded as weak and trivial. In...