Hans Zender: Schubert'... - Allan Clayton - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Hans Zender’s reimagining of Schubert’s Winterreise transforms a familiar piano cycle into a vivid orchestral journey, blending intimacy and intensity. Tenor Allan Clayton and conductor Nicholas Collon lead Aurora Orchestra through a landscape of fractured memories, where folk-like simplicity collides with Mahlerian grandeur and Berg-like expressionism. Zender preserves Schubert’s vocal line but enriches the sound world with guitar, accordion, melodicas, and striking orchestral effects that evoke storms, frozen tears, and fleeting dreams. This interpretation magnifies the cycle’s raw truth about love, loss, and despair, offering audiences a deeply modern, immersive encounter with one of classical music’s most haunting masterpieces.

Tracklist

1. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 1, Gute Nacht
2. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 2, Die Wetterfahne
3. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 3, Gefrorne Tranen
4. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 4, Erstarrung
5. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 5, Der Lindenbaum
6. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 6, Wasserflut
7. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 7, Auf Dem Flusse
8. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 8, Ruckblick
9. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 9, Irrlicht
10. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 10, Rast
11. Schuberts Winterreise: No. 11, Fruhlingstraum
12. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 12, Einsamkeit
13. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 13, Die Post
14. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 14, Der Greise Kopf
15. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 15, Die Krahe
16. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung
17. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 17, Im Dorfe
18. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 18, Der Sturmische Morgen
19. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 19, Tauschung
20. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 20, Der Wegweiser
21. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 21, Das Wirtshaus
22. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 22, Mut!
23. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 23, Die Nebensonnen
24. Schubert's 'Winterreise': No. 24, Der Leiermann

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland