Baritone James Rutherford and pianist Eugene Asti resume their partnership as the pair returns once more to the music of Franz Schubert. Following the success of 2017's Schwanengesang, Rutherford and Asti turn to the composer's second setting of texts by Wilhelm Müller, the Winterreise song cycle. Originally composed for tenor and piano, Rutherford uses the same treatment as the Schwanengesang, transposing the entire work down a minor third to put it more squarely in the baritone range. This treatment is key to keeping the ...
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Baritone James Rutherford and pianist Eugene Asti resume their partnership as the pair returns once more to the music of Franz Schubert. Following the success of 2017's Schwanengesang, Rutherford and Asti turn to the composer's second setting of texts by Wilhelm Müller, the Winterreise song cycle. Originally composed for tenor and piano, Rutherford uses the same treatment as the Schwanengesang, transposing the entire work down a minor third to put it more squarely in the baritone range. This treatment is key to keeping the work's cohesion around a tonal center instead of other treatments that only transpose certain movements or use a variety of steps in the transposition. Written in two parts in 1827, with final revisions made shortly before Schubert's death the following year, it's a dramatic tale of love lost and grief, as the protagonist wanders through the dark winter and ponders death. Schubert had been ill and most assuredly knew the end of his life approached as he set pen to paper, and the...
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