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MusicAges 16–18

Winterreise, D. 911

Franz Schubert · 1828
Secular ModernEuropean

Twenty-four songs about a rejected lover walking through the winter landscape into death. Schubert wrote it the year before his own death at thirty-one. Fischer-Dieskau and Moore is the historic recording; Padmore and Lewis the contemporary one.