Winterreise op. 89 (Franz Schubert) for baritone and string quartet

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - Winterreise op.89

For baritone and string quartet, arranged by Wim ten Have

Winterreise is one of the most famous cycles of the Romantic period. With its 24 songs, it was composed by Franz Schubert, originally for voice and piano, in 1827, one year before his death.
Who doesn't know the lines of the opening song "Gute Nacht": "Stranger I came, stranger I go"? This is the first of the 24 stations of the Wanderer on his way out into the winter night, wandering, wandering and searching after disappointed love on his aimless and hopeless path.
At the beginning, the Wanderer's songs oscillate from exuberant joy to hopeless despair. As the cycle progresses, the listener increasingly becomes the Wanderer's companion and walks with him through the increasingly gloomy mood towards the Leiermann. The cycle ends in the last song with the question and the words: "Will you turn your lyre to my songs?" Is the Leiermann a metaphor for art as the last beacon of hope for a lost and desperate soul? Or is it even death itself that is speaking to him? Or perhaps it is just the wanderer's projection of his own longing?

We are delighted to perform this cycle for the first time in the wonderful acoustics of the church in Ardez in Wim ten Have's arrangement for voice and string quartet, which he originally arranged for the Ragazze Quartet and baritone Martijn Cornet.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 20.00 in the Ardez Ref. church
Box office from 19.15 (25.-)