Idéale audience
Winterreise
One voice and one piano, a poignant despair. Schubert’s Winter Journey with its 24 hypnotic melodies to the obsessive poetry of Wilhelm Müller is like a black monolith in the heart of German culture. This deeply introspective cycle which recounts the wanderings of a disappointed lover in a frozen landscape delves to the depths of metaphysics and ends facing death made up as a hurdy-gurdy player. William Kentridge presents his world of images for the performance of this cycle by Matthias Goerne, one of today’s most outstanding performers of Schubert.
Scriptwriter :
Poems by Wilhelm Müller
Director :
Christian Leblé
Camera :
Raphaël O'Byrn
Producer :
Production : Idéale Audience, Pierre-Olivier Bardet, producer
With the participation of Festival d'Aix en Provence, Mezzo, Unitel Classic.
In association with Arte, Museec
Format :
HDCAM
Year of production :
2014
Composer(s) :
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Stage director :
William Kentridge
Work(s) :
Winterreise
Cycle of lieder for voice and piano (1827)
Cast :
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Markus Hinterhäuser, piano
Date and shoot location :
filmed at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory Aix-en-Provence, France on July 15,2014
Photo credits :
© P.BergerArtcomArt