Wie auch die "Dichterliebe" vom selben Duo zählt diese Aufnahme zu den subtilsten, die ich in fast 50 Jahren gehört und erlebt habe. Dies ist eine unvergleichlich intensiv erarbeitete ganz eigene Interpretation von höchster Wahrhaftigkeit. - Hervorzuheben der mir bislang unbekannte großartig sensible Pianist Jean Lemaire.
I’m sad we never got a recording of Fritz Wunderlich singing winterreise, but I’m so glad we have this! One of the best tenor renditions (in my opinion)
Eine hervorragende Interpretation, sowohl dem Tenor als auch dem Pianisten kann nur zu dem wundervollen Liederspecial gratuliert werden. Gerade in der heutigen hektischen Zeit können und dürfen wir einem solchen die Seele berührenden Werk und der Darbietung nur dankbar entgegenblicken. Vielen herzlichen Dank!
A great and true artist! A warm voice that tells the story! It's not just the technique that matters but also the emotions. And this piano... Jean Lemaire! God!...Brilliant duo! Thanks for the upload! 28:33 The Wasserflut! one of my favorites!
After listening to all the pompous old singers who love to sing the Reise it is s a joy to hear this. Winterreise was written by Young men. Sturm und Drang!
Very interesting analysis at the beginning. It occurred to me recently that the sudden and traumatic loss of the love of his life may have pushed the protagonist of the Winterreise into an episode of manic-depressive psychosis. He goes through extreme mood swings from deep depression (e.g., Gefror'ne Tränen, Wasserflut, Einsamkeit) to emotional highs (Der Stürmische Morgen) and even phantasies of divinity and omnipotence (Mut). He also has paranoid phantasies (Die Wetterfahne) and hallucinations (Irrlicht, Täuschung). The end is ambiguous. Is Der Leiermann an allegory of death (suicide, freezing to death somewhere) or has he finally found a like-minded individual with whom he can share his thoughts and feelings and regain control over his life and his emotions? It's this ambiguity that makes the end so powerful and thought-provoking.
Schubert is a great composer to have wriiten Winterreise. Araiza's performance does it full justice. But why does no--one ever mention the pianist? Accompanying songs is a high art, and few succeed in doing it justice. Lemaire is one of these, and must also be given full credit for his artistry.
Francisco gerçekten kendi etkisini gösteriyor. Onu dinlerken gerçekten farklı bir iş göreceğimin ve bunun da beni değiştireceğinin farkında oluyorum. Bu kayıt benim için hazine gibi değerli. Teşekkürler.
Yes, this is really the very best interpretation ever. These two musicians even surpass Svjatoslav Richter and Peter Schreier which I have thought they are the best. Francisco Araiza and Jean Lemaire prove that in fact there is no limit to musical and human exprssion. These two muicians make a great justice to the music in general, and especially to Schuberts music. It is for me very surprising in the most pleasurable way that also in the present days still there are such great musicians. Every tone gets its full potential expressiveness. The music of Schubert gets through the interpretation of Fracisco Araiza its true expression which is by no other singer to be found in such a complexity and such an expressiveness. The sound and the balance between the voice and the piano are also very supporting the musical expressibness of the both musicians. This is the geatest interpretation ever heared.
Glad that you liked our video. Just in case you don't know it already, we also recommend the performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe, performed by the same two artists, Francisco Araiza and Jean Lemaire: ua-cam.com/video/dBErMoNrp0U/v-deo.html
Paul Doron I agree w you on the singular beauty of this performance. His approach on the first note of each phrase really is astonishingly sensitive. I have always loved Araiza & this is exceptional on every level. PS: Anything w the unfortunately named Peter Schreier could never be the best. There are better voices & interpretations voices everywhere... such as here, but also elsewhere: Fischer Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, even Brigitte Fassbaender! If only Fritz Wunderlich had recorded it!
pgbluster Heaven forbid us being too harsh on Peter Schreier. I love him as Basilio in the German Figaros Hochzeit & as Almaviva in the also German production of Der Barbier von Seville, both conducted wildly & so intelligently by Otmar Suitner. But he is almost never the best, esp as we hold Fritz Wunderlich's shiningly brilliant tenor & tender interpretations in memory w brio & sorrow. NB: I like Araiza the first time I heard him... many years ago.
My favorite version of this amazing cicle. Araiza Is perfect and the pianist too. I particularly enjoy the sound of this piano. More pianist should play and record with bösendorfer pianos. What a warm and velvet like sound!
Again, such a production from the musical point of view, and also concerning the sound recording and the image direction is just an unique masterpiece. It should be more recordings, of the whole Schubert music like this one.
Eh bien, c'est très beau ! 🌹💐🌹 Quelle belle sincérité tant de F. Araiza que de J. Lemaire - quel beau Bösendorfer ! Et quelle très fine scénographie, quel magnifique enregistrement et quel beau lieu ! Le seul reproche : F. Araiza, malgré toutes ses qualités - il est au sommet -, me donne la très nette impression d'être très intimidé par ce monument : il est reste figé comme une statue de pierre ; et cette main droite quasiment fermée en poing durant tout ce fantastique cheminement est pénible à regarder. Mais cela reste une très belle prestation ! Je vais m'empresser d'écouter cet autre chef d'oeuvre cher à mon cœur : die Dichterliebe; j'en ai huit interprétations différentes- homme et femme.
Outstanding. Araiza gets all the drama and emotion without forcing it. On many other celebrated versions, I naturally cringe before climaxes which can sometimes resemble a bark (you know who I am referring to), but Araiza maintains his singing tone without underlining its intensity with shouting, a difficult feat in this music. This stands alongside my previous favorite, Schreier and Richter, an arresting version to be sure, but perhaps eclipsed by this one, where the close miking reveals every nuance of Araiza's expression. The pianist Lemaire is right with him in a singing, supportive role, as opposed to, for example, Britten who is more of a dramatic equal with his soloist, Peter Pears, doing conspicuous justice to Schubert's inimitable piano writing.
Sehr schön, aber ich vermisse auf YT die Version mit Quasthoff, bei der eine Frau am Klavier sitzt. Habe leider ihren Namen nicht im Gedächtnis, aber muss Spanisch oder Portugiesisch sein.
Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but I could not get past the exaggerated rubatos in Gute Nacht. Did not seem natural. One needs not overly dramatize, Schubert already wrote in plenty of drama. And rocks and leaves on the piano? Please...
Certainly not "the" best tenor Winterreise, remember Schreier, Prégardien and Haefliger, but a respectable recording. His German is also respectable. The wonderful Schiötz and Peter Pears recordings suffer a little bit under the bad German pronunciation (for German listeners). Araiza has a certain warmness and richness of voice with a lot of overtones which makes his voice a real lied voice. But some alterations of tempi make sometimes a faux impression. And Wunderlich has never recorded the Winterreise! Compare with the Werner Güra recording, much more natural and unaffected. Every singer has to make decisions and if he is slow he can't be quick at same time. If he is affected he can't be natural at same time and so on. The personal properties and the characters of voices are different. So different personalities and abilities led to different characters of interpretation. There is no right or wrong but convincing or not. Thus there is no best interpretation but a lot of good (and of bad) interpretations.
@@ransomcoates546 Think whatever you want about me but I can't believe that you think that people like Araiza and Lemaire don't study about the composer and the form they are playing and that everything they do is for a reason. Listen to or read about whatever interview Araiza gave about Lieder. He has the most respect for that form.
@@ransomcoates546 Classic interpreters of Romantic (piano) music use lots of rubato, so it is absolutely fitting to do so. I understand if it's not your thing, but to claim that that is wrong of them is just incorrect. I do not know whence the "anti-sentimental" in lieder came, but it is certainly neither natural nor authentic.
Araiza was a great Rossini and Belcanto tenor, but Schubert ? No no non….I couldn’t pass Gute Nacht with all the rubatos and variations. So slow and boring…Both him and the pianist fail to understand that gute nacht is the beginning of the journey , it needs a pace….
Schubert is a great composer to have wriiten Winterreise. Araiza's performance does it full justice. But why does no-=one ever mention the pianist? Accompanying songs is a high art, and few succeed in doing it justice. Lemaire is one of these, and must also be given full credit for his artistry.
![Hans Hotter: Winterreise [Raucheisen, 1942] by Schubert](/img/n.gif)
Francisco is so good, so underrated, one of the best ever!
Weird phrasing and breathing, but lovely voice.
Fantastico Araiza! Fantastico Lemaire! E fantastico il Bösendorfer!
Wie auch die "Dichterliebe" vom selben Duo zählt diese Aufnahme zu den subtilsten, die ich in fast 50 Jahren gehört und erlebt habe. Dies ist eine unvergleichlich intensiv erarbeitete ganz eigene Interpretation von höchster Wahrhaftigkeit. - Hervorzuheben der mir bislang unbekannte großartig sensible Pianist Jean Lemaire.
I’m sad we never got a recording of Fritz Wunderlich singing winterreise, but I’m so glad we have this! One of the best tenor renditions (in my opinion)
I adore fritz wunderlich but yes you're right. I love this performance. ❤
Eine hervorragende Interpretation, sowohl dem Tenor als auch dem Pianisten kann nur zu dem wundervollen Liederspecial gratuliert werden. Gerade in der heutigen hektischen Zeit können und dürfen wir einem solchen die Seele berührenden Werk und der Darbietung nur dankbar entgegenblicken. Vielen herzlichen Dank!
Genauso! Ganz persönlich... Intim. Ich bin sehr berührt
A great and true artist! A warm voice that tells the story! It's not just the technique that matters but also the emotions. And this piano... Jean Lemaire! God!...Brilliant duo! Thanks for the upload!
28:33 The Wasserflut! one of my favorites!
My favorite too :)
Wunder Francisco Araiza!!!
After listening to all the pompous old singers who love to sing the Reise it is s a joy to hear this. Winterreise was written by Young men. Sturm und Drang!
37:38 Rückblick - Amazing performance.
Very interesting analysis at the beginning. It occurred to me recently that the sudden and traumatic loss of the love of his life may have pushed the protagonist of the Winterreise into an episode of manic-depressive psychosis. He goes through extreme mood swings from deep depression (e.g., Gefror'ne Tränen, Wasserflut, Einsamkeit) to emotional highs (Der Stürmische Morgen) and even phantasies of divinity and omnipotence (Mut). He also has paranoid phantasies (Die Wetterfahne) and hallucinations (Irrlicht, Täuschung).
The end is ambiguous. Is Der Leiermann an allegory of death (suicide, freezing to death somewhere) or has he finally found a like-minded individual with whom he can share his thoughts and feelings and regain control over his life and his emotions? It's this ambiguity that makes the end so powerful and thought-provoking.
Beauty video. Very good performance. Thanks
Wonderful ! Imaginative setting, this emotional performance of the song 'Gute Nacht' is matchless. Bravo to both singer and pianist.
Wunderschön ❤ Danke
What a great pleasure to listen to these two artists
a true artist, excellent!
Получила огромное удовольствие! Буду слушать ещё, сравнивать с другими исполнениями.
beautiful delivery, bravo!!!
Me electriza el timbre de Araiza en sus aumentos de volumen. Bueno! y también al bajar la voz. Es único
Awesome 👏👏👍👍🤩🤩🤩🤩🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
einfach nur wunderschön!!!!!!!
What beautiful voice he has !!!, even the introduction.
wunderschön!!!!!!!
Superb singing and interpretation of the lyrics.
Schubert is a great composer to have wriiten Winterreise. Araiza's performance does it full justice. But why does no--one ever mention the pianist? Accompanying songs is a high art, and few succeed in doing it justice. Lemaire is one of these, and must also be given full credit for his artistry.
Phantastisch! Geht mir richtig unter die Haut. Selten so eine intensive Winterreise gehört.
siegfried k Also spracht!
Araiza empfindet jedes Wort, das er singt. Ich bin tief berührt von dieser Interpretation. Meisterlich.
Ich liebe dieser Musik sehr richtig.. Aber es ist ein wenig langsam..
Brilliant rendition! :)
Einzigartig!
Francisco gerçekten kendi etkisini gösteriyor. Onu dinlerken gerçekten farklı bir iş göreceğimin ve bunun da beni değiştireceğinin farkında oluyorum. Bu kayıt benim için hazine gibi değerli. Teşekkürler.
Yes, this is really the very best interpretation ever. These two musicians even surpass Svjatoslav Richter and Peter Schreier which I have thought they are the best. Francisco Araiza and Jean Lemaire prove that in fact there is no limit to musical and human exprssion. These two muicians make a great justice to the music in general, and especially to Schuberts music. It is for me very surprising in the most pleasurable way that also in the present days still there are such great musicians. Every tone gets its full potential expressiveness. The music of Schubert gets through the interpretation of Fracisco Araiza its true expression which is by no other singer to be found in such a complexity and such an expressiveness. The sound and the balance between the voice and the piano are also very supporting the musical expressibness of the both musicians. This is the geatest interpretation ever heared.
Glad that you liked our video. Just in case you don't know it already, we also recommend the performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe, performed by the same two artists, Francisco Araiza and Jean Lemaire: ua-cam.com/video/dBErMoNrp0U/v-deo.html
Paul Doron I agree w you on the singular beauty of this performance. His approach on the first note of each phrase really is astonishingly sensitive. I have always loved Araiza & this is exceptional on every level. PS: Anything w the unfortunately named Peter Schreier could never be the best. There are better voices & interpretations voices everywhere... such as here, but also elsewhere: Fischer Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Jonas Kaufmann, Peter Pears, Hans Hotter, even Brigitte Fassbaender! If only Fritz Wunderlich had recorded it!
Let's not be too harsh on Peter Schreier! But you're right, Araiza really is amazingly insightful here.
pgbluster Heaven forbid us being too harsh on Peter Schreier. I love him as Basilio in the German Figaros Hochzeit & as Almaviva in the also German production of Der Barbier von Seville, both conducted wildly & so intelligently by Otmar Suitner. But he is almost never the best, esp as we hold Fritz Wunderlich's shiningly brilliant tenor & tender interpretations in memory w brio & sorrow. NB: I like Araiza the first time I heard him... many years ago.
Peter Anders’ is great too
The deep mourning of Wasserflut, the hallucinatory exhaustion in Rast, the profound surrender to death in Das Wirtshaus… all is perfect.
My favorite version of this amazing cicle. Araiza Is perfect and the pianist too. I particularly enjoy the sound of this piano. More pianist should play and record with bösendorfer pianos. What a warm and velvet like sound!
Again, such a production from the musical point of view, and also concerning the sound recording and the image direction is just an unique masterpiece. It should be more recordings, of the whole Schubert music like this one.
Echtes Gefühl und Könnerschaft
Eh bien, c'est très beau ! 🌹💐🌹
Quelle belle sincérité tant de F. Araiza que de J. Lemaire - quel beau Bösendorfer !
Et quelle très fine scénographie, quel magnifique enregistrement et quel beau lieu !
Le seul reproche : F. Araiza, malgré toutes ses qualités - il est au sommet -, me donne la très nette impression d'être très intimidé par ce monument : il est reste figé comme une statue de pierre ; et cette main droite quasiment fermée en poing durant tout ce fantastique cheminement est pénible à regarder.
Mais cela reste une très belle prestation !
Je vais m'empresser d'écouter cet autre chef d'oeuvre cher à mon cœur : die Dichterliebe; j'en ai huit interprétations différentes- homme et femme.
Way better than Kaufmann... such a beautiful tenor voice and what a musicality 😍
whoa whoa...kaufmann never hat a setting and pianist like this
프란체스코의 목소리는 모든 영양제가 다 들어있어요. 고급스럽고 윤기나고 넘 아름다운 음색과 발성의 완벽함. 그가 이탈리안 리였으면!!! 엄청난 대우를 받았겠지요🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Sublime!
in 1993. After the 1980s we heard less of this singer, possible? Such a pity.
Me recuerda a Placido. Un virtuso, sin duda. Viva Mexico!!!
Großartig. Dennoch empfehle ich die Aufnahme von Peter Anders aus dem Jahre 1945. Untergangsstimmung.
Sehr schön! Gute Stimmführung 👍 mal was anderes wie immer nur diese deutsch-hellen Tenorstimmen!
Outstanding. Araiza gets all the drama and emotion without forcing it. On many other celebrated versions, I naturally cringe before climaxes which can sometimes resemble a bark (you know who I am referring to), but Araiza maintains his singing tone without underlining its intensity with shouting, a difficult feat in this music. This stands alongside my previous favorite, Schreier and Richter, an arresting version to be sure, but perhaps eclipsed by this one, where the close miking reveals every nuance of Araiza's expression. The pianist Lemaire is right with him in a singing, supportive role, as opposed to, for example, Britten who is more of a dramatic equal with his soloist, Peter Pears, doing conspicuous justice to Schubert's inimitable piano writing.
Viva Mexico !
Er singt auch Wilhelm Müllers Winterreise..
Übrigens finde ich, dass man schon erwähnen sollte, dass der Liederzyklus auf Gedichten von Wilhelm Müller basiert.
What year is it from? Araiza does great! I never knew he did lied, actually!
Absolutely beautiful! Perfect voice. Schubert would have loved it. But the first song is far too slow, actually all songs
Wem diese Interpretation nicht gefällt, der hat ja die Wahl zwischen ein paar weiteren.
Outstansding
An ad in the middle of a song!???????????? Please do better
Sehr schön, aber ich vermisse auf YT die Version mit Quasthoff, bei der eine Frau am Klavier sitzt. Habe leider ihren Namen nicht im Gedächtnis, aber muss Spanisch oder Portugiesisch sein.
Are you talking about Hélène Grimaud? She's a great french pianist.
@@jotabern Quasthoff with Barenboïm is very impressive.
Great performers and interpreters; too-heavy pedaling.
Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but I could not get past the exaggerated rubatos in Gute Nacht. Did not seem natural. One needs not overly dramatize, Schubert already wrote in plenty of drama. And rocks and leaves on the piano? Please...
Certainly not "the" best tenor Winterreise, remember Schreier, Prégardien and Haefliger, but a respectable recording. His German is also respectable. The wonderful Schiötz and Peter Pears recordings suffer a little bit under the bad German pronunciation (for German listeners). Araiza has a certain warmness and richness of voice with a lot of overtones which makes his voice a real lied voice. But some alterations of tempi make sometimes a faux impression. And Wunderlich has never recorded the Winterreise! Compare with the Werner Güra recording, much more natural and unaffected. Every singer has to make decisions and if he is slow he can't be quick at same time. If he is affected he can't be natural at same time and so on. The personal properties and the characters of voices are different. So different personalities and abilities led to different characters of interpretation. There is no right or wrong but convincing or not. Thus there is no best interpretation but a lot of good (and of bad) interpretations.
I do remember Prégardien... And I consider all his Schubert shameful. 🙊
Why?
@@Piflaser What can i say? Mediocre voice, bad singing, bad taste, execrable ornaments...
@@DiomedesDioscuro lol
@Robert Lee, Countertenor Most of them have not even the printed pages, but they have the intuition.
The slow tempo in the first song - with rubato! - is dreadful. Is the pianist a bad student? I can’t listen to another bar it’s so bad.
Uh yeah... Playing with rubato in a piece from the romantic period... Nobody does that. Just crazy. (Eyeroll)
@@Gisechan You apparently don’t know much about German Lieder. Read a book, or better yet listen to some music.
@@ransomcoates546 Think whatever you want about me but I can't believe that you think that people like Araiza and Lemaire don't study about the composer and the form they are playing and that everything they do is for a reason. Listen to or read about whatever interview Araiza gave about Lieder. He has the most respect for that form.
@@ransomcoates546 Classic interpreters of Romantic (piano) music use lots of rubato, so it is absolutely fitting to do so. I understand if it's not your thing, but to claim that that is wrong of them is just incorrect. I do not know whence the "anti-sentimental" in lieder came, but it is certainly neither natural nor authentic.
Ransom Coates. Unqualifizierter Kommentar. Keine Ahnung.
Araiza was a great Rossini and Belcanto tenor, but Schubert ? No no non….I couldn’t pass Gute Nacht with all the rubatos and variations. So slow and boring…Both him and the pianist fail to understand that gute nacht is the beginning of the journey , it needs a pace….
Schubert is a great composer to have wriiten Winterreise. Araiza's performance does it full justice. But why does no-=one ever mention the pianist? Accompanying songs is a high art, and few succeed in doing it justice. Lemaire is one of these, and must also be given full credit for his artistry.
Agreed, he follows Araiza's every impulse and idea AND infuses the piano with feeling and meaning of its own. Stunning work