Songs
“Strange old man, shall I go with you? Will you play your hurdy-gurdy to my songs?” (last verse of the Winterreise)
- 1 Der Leiermann/ hurdy gurdy man
- 2 Auf Dem Flusse/on the river
- 3 Die Krähe/ The Crow
- 5 Der Wegweiser/ The Sign Post
- 5 Frühlingstraum / Dream of Spring
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- country:Austria
- region:Central Europe
- style(s):Classical, Acoustic
- label:Raumklang Records
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Bigathing.very Special Music
Line up
- Matthias Loibner (hurdy-gurdy)
- Natasa Mircovic-DeRo (vocal)
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WINTER JOURNEY
Sacrilege A monument of bourgeois concert-hall culture is demolished Where art connoisseurs normally contemplate the depths of their own souls to dark, romantic sounds, there now remains no room for sentimentality. For the Winterreise ("Winter Journey") in the version by Natasa Mirkovic - De Ro and Matthias Loibner is a skeleton. It leads the text and the music back to the essence, to an attitude that oscillates between laconism and pathos, and was already conceived in this ambivalence by Schubert.
Man as the plaything of the emotions, as sufferer of fate and simultaneously as its sovereign a Romantic topos that is often enjoyed with piano-beclouded melancholy. This Winterreise doesn't give him a chance. It is bold and direct, present, and at the same time fragile, an approach to the poetry that could hardly be more honest.
ralf dombrowski
Over there beyond the village
"Strange old man, shall I go with you?
Will you play your hurdy-gurdy to my songs?"
(last verse of the Winterreise)
w. mueller, the hurdy-gurdy man
"If only the third would also set,
I will feel better in the dark."
w. mueller, the false suns
The combination of Schubert's Winterreise and the hurdy-gurdy came about quite naturally through the "Hurdy-Gurdy Man," who in the last song of the cycle is usually understood as an allegory for insanity, death, or torpor.
The constant flight of the lyrical self from the inner turmoil to a yearning (for death and love), whose real insatiableness becomes perceptible in Schubert's setting, has from the very beginning fascinated me in the texts of Wilhelm Mueller.
As a "hurdy-gurdy man," I was from the outset destined to fail in the challenge of interpreting the numerous, above all harmonic, nuances of this
musical foreboding. So the end of the Winterreise becomes the point of departure, and in this way pushes the dissatisfaction and loneliness into the foreground of this version for voice and hurdy-gurdy.
matthias loibner
Who saw flowers in winter
"Why then do I avoid the highways where
the other travelers go ..."
w. mueller, the sign post
"My heart sees in the heavens its own image
painted It's nothing but the winter, the winter
cold and wild"
w. mueller, the stormy morning
The disappointment and the wish to hold fulfillment firmly in both hands this image of inner turmoil manifests itself in Mueller's words and in Schubert's setting from 1827, the year of Mueller's death. In an unparalleled spiritual kinship, both immersed their yearning in their respective art in order to say one thing in two ways. A unison of emotions flows in every line and in every musical phrase.
Graz stage director Ernst M. Binder's idea awakened in me an enthusiasm and an irresistible magical urgeto embark on this journey through this winter of the emotions. And already after a few of Mueller's words and several of Schubert's tones, the need arose to tell of these emotions, fragile and naked and freed of unnecessary decoration in order to serve the listener, by means of the voice, as a mirror, and to let him/her share in the intimate communication between Mueller and Schubert, which uniquely shines from the depths through the whole cycle.
natasa mirkovic - de ro