Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten discuss “Die Winterreise“ - 1968

Video footage of this great couple who brought so much understanding to everything they approached. Amazing ensemble... amazing love! This brief sampling from Schubert’s great cycle “Winterreise“, D. 911, includes “Frühlingstraum“, “Im Dorfe“, and “Der Leiermann“. From 1968. Here is a link to many wonderful rare recordings and performances with Peter Pears: #grid/user/56BC9315D6954644 XI. “Frühlingstraum“ (Dream of Springtime) He dreams he is wandering through meadows full of flowers and bird-song in May: he heard the cock’s crow and opened his eyes, but it was a raven calling in the cheerless darkness. Who could draw the flowers of ice he can see on the windows? He dreams again, of love, and a maiden’s kiss, and the joy and bliss of love, but again the crowing wakes him and he sits up alone. He tries to sleep again: when will the leaves at the window be green - when w