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SCHUBERT'S WINTERREISE
Sung by PARRY JONES (Tenor)
DIE WINTERREISE (The Winter Journey) is a setting of twenty-four songs by Wilhelm Milller , which Schubert composed in 1827, the year before he died.
The story is not so definite as that of the more familiar Maid of the Mill cycle, which has several times been broadcast.
A youth's romance is over, and he takes his lonely road in sorrow. Everything reminds him of his past happiness, yet promises no renewal of it. He dreams of May, and wakes to winter. He sees portents in nature of the final departure of hope, and of the coming of death.
Tonight we are to hear the first four songs in the cycle Gute Nacht (Good Night), Die Wetterfahne (The Weathercock), Gefrnrne Thranen (Frozen Tears), Erstarrung (Benumbed).

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