Martin Achrainer - Winterreise (2019)

A singer, a pianist and 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller, set to music by Franz Schubert - Winterreise creates a combination of musical extraordinaryness and emotional roller coaster in a minimalistic way. Baritone Martin Achrainer interprets the famous cycle in a staged adaptation by Hermann Schneider. Franz Schubert as a misunderstood, happy and unsuccessful, financially always vicious loner is a fan of the romance. Winterreise therefore a too premature masterpiece of a young deceased, which opened in the lifetime of his creator only initiated, far-sighted ghosts in all his strength. These readings are common, almost ritualized and internalized. They are true and they are not. Of course, Franz Schubert is one of the early representatives of Romanticism, just as Winterreise has become the almost sacrosanct colossus of the genus Lied.