Schubert: Die Winterreise

Baritone: Thomas Quasthoff - Piano: Daniel Barenboim

Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise, Op.89

Wholenote Discoveries - April 2009
For those who wish a male voice for Die Winterreise, the DVD of Thomas Quasthoff with pianist Daniel Barenboim, issued a couple of years ago, is the finest I’ve ever seen or heard (DG 0734049). Filmed in the Berlin Philharmonie on 22 March 2005, the disc also contains some interviews and rehearsals. We are privy to singer and accompanist freely exchanging ideas and arriving at meaningful interpretations of matchless intensity. Bruce Surtees

Price: $18.98