{"product_id":"husch-schubert-winterreise-1933-paco005","title":"HÜSCH Schubert: Winterreise (1933) - PACO005","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e Winterreise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D7722F0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded in 1933\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eDuration: 65:38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775470\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eGerhard Hüsch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, baritone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775470\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eHanns Udo Müller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBill Rosen's Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fIn this marvelous restoration he and his pianist present a very rare balance of beauty and musicianship that brings life to this transcendent song cycle578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003eAlthough Beethoven is generally credited with creating the first song\ncycle (\"And die Ferne Geliebte\"), Schubert ennobled the genre with his\ntwo masterpieces \"Die Schöne Müllerin\" and \"Die Winterreise\". In the\n19th century only Schumann's \"Dichterliebe\" and \"Frauenliebe und Leben\"\ncompeted with Schubert's works. The 20th century has been more\nproductive beginning with Mahler's towering \"Das Lied von der Erde\",\nJanacek's \"The Diary of One Who Disappeared\", continuing with Frank\nMartin's \"Sech Monologue aus Jedermann\" and the magnificent and nearly\nunknown \"The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke\" and finally two\nof Shostakovich's seminal works: the 14th symphony and the Suite on\nVerses of Michelangelo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut none of these successors to Die\nWinterreise have managed to create for an entire hour a mood of such\nintensity and despair. In the earlier and happier work (Müllerin), the\ndisappointed lover drowns himself in the everpresent babbling brook. In\nDie Winterreise, the jilted would-be bridegroom already is ironically\nleaving town in the first song and about to embark on an hour-long\nleave-taking journey where the winter outside is as nothing compared to\nthe winter in his soul. There are moments of partial relief (Die\nLindenbaum), but the jouney leads to Der Leiermann, the Hurdy-Gurdy Man,\nbarefoot on the ice, in rags, who plays listlessly and gets no coppers\nand moves on. The protagonist also has nowhere to go and nothing else to\ndo - a true winter of existential emptiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe singer of\nWinterreise must maintain some variety within the overall tragic\nframework. He must keep the protagonist's basic identity in spite of the\nincreasing mood swings toward the end of the cycle: the more than a\nhint of suicide in Der Wegweiser [\"One road I must travel by which no\none ever returned\"] and the possible madness of Die Nebensonnen [The\nPhantom Suns]. I have been an appreciative fan of Gerhardt Hüsch's\nWinterreise for at least 20 years, but Pristine Audio has scrubbed the\ngrime of the decades from it and and both Hüsch and Müller emerge with\nunsuspected brilliance and power and it seems as if I'm hearing them for\nthe first time. Hüsch has an incredibly pure, masculine and tender\nvoice. His taste is always very musical; he never shouts or growls or\ncroons, but he knows how to convey passion and sorrow. The piano playing\nand piano sound is so gorgeous. 1933? It's hard to believe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'm\nloath to mention highlights, but just a few: (1) the strong and stately\nDer Lindenbaum, (2) the halting sadness of Wasserflut, (3) the excellent\nlimning of the rapidly changing moods of Frühlingstraum, (4) the simple\nbut ironic joy of Die Post, (5) the proto-suicidal Die Wegweiser, and\n(6) the unsentimental, affecting final Die Leiermann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo keep\nmyself calibrated, I listened to Frühlingstraum by four other great\nsingers: Fischer-Dieskau (1955), Hotter (1943), Haefliger (1985), and\nPrey (1984). Fischer-Dieskau had all the artistry one expects, but his\nvoice lacked the beauty of Hüsch's. Hotter seemed too old and grim by\nhalf. Haefliger was magnificent in his changes of timbre, but the\n\"whiteness\" in his voice reduced the sensual pleasure. Prey's voice was\nvery beautiful and the closest to Hüsch's in sound and artistry. I will\nnot say that Gerhardt Hüsch is the greatest Winterreise singer of all,\nbut I can say that in this marvelous restoration he and his pianist\npresent a very rare balance of beauty and musicianship that brings life\nto this transcendent song cycle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviewer: Bill Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACO005.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchubert's masterful song cycle Winterreise\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePremière recording from 1933 in superb sound quality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften regarded as perhaps the greatest song cycle ever written, we're\ndelighted to present the world première recording, newly remastered by\nAndrew Rose from immaculate 78rpm discs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classic\ninterpretation remained in the HMV catalogue for over 20 years and was\nregarded as definitive. It is almost complete - there is a verse omitted\nfrom Gute Nacht to enable it to fit onto a 78 rpm side - and the\nstandard of recording almost matches the standard of musical artistry. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo\ncome across a set of this vintage and to be able to bring out such a\nwonderful sound is one of the great privileges of doing this kind of\nwork - since its completion this is one recording which has remained\nconstantly on my listening list - the beauty of Schubert's bleak\nmelancholy so magically captured by Gerhard Hüsch and Hans Udo Müller is\none to return to over and over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1925 and 1945 Gerhard\nHüsch was a regular star of the operatic stage, making his debut at\nLiberau in Lortzing’s Der Waffenschmied in Osnabrück. He was also one of\nthe most admired singers of Lieder of the 1930's - as this recording\ndemonstrates, this admiration was wholly justified. After his\nretirement, Hüsch made a second outstanding career as a master teacher\nof vocal interpretations, latterly also in London. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis\nrecording was originally issued as a limited edition by HMV, listed\nunder their Society sets, and was followed a years later by a recording\nof Die Schöne Müllerin, which we offer as PACO007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSCHUBERT \u003c\/b\u003e Winterreise\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuration: 65:38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded in 1933, issued as 9 HMV 78s DB2039-2044 \u0026amp; 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