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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: Winterreise: Schubert's winter journey

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Winterreise: Schubert's winter journey

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Schubert's bleak winter journey sung by Ashley Riches with Joseph Middleton.

Schubert's emotionally harrowing winter journey performed by Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton.

Schubert’s emotionally harrowing winter journey is performed by Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton.
Schubert wrote his epic winter journey when, as one of his friends observed, ‘Life had lost its rosiness and winter had come upon him.’ In this final song cycle, Schubert searched out and set twenty-four poems by the Romantic, Wilhelm Müller which tell of a lonely traveller who ventures out into the snow: “A stranger I arrived; a stranger I depart.” As he passes his lover’s house, the poet writes ‘Goodnight’ on her gatepost and so begins this harrowing journey of twilight hues and bleak landscapes, of snow and ice. As Schubert said, these songs are: “Truly terrible, they have affected me more than any others.” Winterreise is one of the greatest journeys in all music.

Schubert Winterreise D. 911
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

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