Schubert's Winterreise

Hear the musical poem cycle Winterreise with the tenor Mathias Hedegaard and the accordionist Radu Ratoi together with the ensemble’s wind players. “I came as a stranger, and as a stranger I depart again..” With those words Schubert’s cycle of 24 songs about the wanderer who sets out into the winter landscape begins, Quiet but sombre and unsettling music pulses beneath the singer’s words of pain: “I cannot feel at home in this world, love has failed me, I must depart, but do not know where to, and everything I meet on my way only reminds me of my loneliness and misfortune.” Through the 24 songs the singer speaks with nature - with the clouds, the river, the birds and the mountains. At last the singer meets a hurdy-gurdy player – a poor old man who can do nothing but turn his hurdy-gurdy – and asks himself whether he should go with him, into death, one must assume... Look forward to being drawn into the music and the wondrous world of sounds of nature and musical references that Schubert conjures up, and look forward to the concert’s exciting instrumentation with voice, wind quintet and accordion! Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Winterreise (Winter Journey) (1827) Op. 89, for voice, wind quintet and accordion Soloists: Mathias Hedegård, voice, and Ratui Radu, accordion Concert introduction at 18:45 NB: This concert is played without an interval

• Mathias Hedegaardtenor
• Radu Ratoiharmonika

LISTEN TO MUSIC BY THE CONCERT'S COMPOSERS