Thomas Quasthoff & Daniel Barenboim – Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: 24. Der Leiermann (excerpt)

In 1827, a year before his death, Franz Schubert wrote one of his most important works: the Winterreise. In the song cycle, the Austrian composer set the 24 poems of Wilhelm Müller to music depicting the haunted soul and landscape of the state of human loneliness. In this recording, baritone Thomas Quasthoff is accompanied on piano by his long-time collaborator, Daniel Barenboim. Celebrated around the world for his excellent Schubert interpretations, Quasthoff won a Grammy Award in 2003. Not known for exaggerated displays of emotion, neither in conversation nor in his art, he interprets the sleepless wanderer as Schubert would have him - a young journeyman, who while not bathing in narcissistic, self-pitying pain is truly touched to the core by that emotion. Thomas Quasthoff & Daniel Barenboim – Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911: 24. Der Leiermann (excerpt) Listen to ’Schubert: Winterreise’: Subscribe here for more classical video clips – The Best Of