Christoph Pregardien, Michael Gees - Franz Schubert: Winterreise (2013) [HDTracks]

Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the most famous song cycles in classical music and musicians perform it again and again because of its beauty, sorrow and depth. Both tenor Christoph Prgardien and pianist Michael Gees have their own vision of the cycle: playing together, a third view develops, combining their two visions into this exciting, highly-regarded interpretation.


“Prgardien and Gees strike the listener as thinking their way through the experience of the lover as he is himself understanding it … their performance is marked by this quality of immediacy … a beautiful, constantly attentive, never overstated and deeply affecting performance, one for lovers of Schubert’s songs to treasure.”
– International Record Review

“Five Stars … we finally have Prgardien’s Winterreise with Michael Gees. It is well worth the wait … the voice is in superb form … in both voice and piano there is the perfect fusion of raw immediacy and a broader overview … gives the performance a visionary quality that only the very best achieve. The clarity of the recording, with its clean, natural sound, matches that of the verbal enunciation and fingerwork.”
– BBC Music Magazine