Zender: Schubert's "Winterreise" - A Composed Interpretation

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World premiere: Frankfurt am Main, September 21, 1993

My "lecture" of the Winterreise does not demand a new expressive interpretation, but instead systematically exercises the freedom which all interpreters allow themselves intuitively, such as: Instrumental dilation i. e. acceleration of the pace, transposition into other keys and elaboration of characteristic color timbres. in addition, there are further ways of "reading"; the music; jumping around in the text, repeating certain lines, interrupting the continuity, comparing different expressions of the same phrase … All these new possibilities are subjected to my compositional discipline and form autonomous formal processes which are imposed on Schuberts original. The transformation of the piano tones into a multifaceted orchestra full of resonance is only one of many aspects. (Hans Zender)

1. Gute Nacht
2. Die Wetterfahne
3. Gefrorne Tränen
4. Erstarrung
5. Der Lindenbaum
6. Wasserflut
7. Auf dem Flusse
8. Rückblick
9. Irrlicht
10. Rast
11. Frühlingstraum
12. Einsamkeit
13. Die Post
14. Der greise Kopf
15. Die Krähe
16. Letzte Hoffnung
17. Im Dorfe
18. Der stürmische Morgen
19. Täuschung
20. Der Wegweiser
21. Das Wirtshaus
22. Mut!
23. Die Nebensonnen
24. Der Leiermann