Hans Zender’s reimagining of Schubert’s Winterreise transforms a familiar piano cycle into a vivid orchestral journey, blending intimacy and intensity. Tenor Allan Clayton and conductor Nicholas Collon lead Aurora Orchestra through a landscape of fractured memories, where folk-like simplicity collides with Mahlerian grandeur and Berg-like expressionism. Zender preserves Schubert’s vocal line but enriches the sound world with guitar, accordion, melodicas, and striking orchestral effects that evoke storms, frozen tears, and fleeting dreams. This interpretation magnifies the cycle’s raw truth about love, loss, and despair, offering audiences a deeply modern, immersive encounter with one of classical music’s most haunting masterpieces.
Schubert’s Winterreise: A Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton – Tenor
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon – Conductor
Release date: January 16th 2025
Catalogue number: SIGCD964
Barcode: 635212096420
ALBUM 1
[1] No. 1, Gute Nacht
[2] No. 2, Die Wetterfahne
[3] No. 3, Gefrorne Tränen
[4] No. 4, Erstarrung
[5] No. 5, Der Lindenbaum
[6] No. 6, Wasserflut
[7] No. 7, Auf dem Flusse
[8] No. 8, Rückblick
[9] No. 9, Irrlicht
[10] No. 10, Rast
[11] No. 11, Frühlingstraum
ALBUM 2
[12] No. 12, Einsamkeit
[13] No. 13, Die Post
[14] No. 14, Der greise Kopf
[15] No. 15, Die Krähe
[16] No. 16, Letzte Hoffnung
[17] No. 17, Im Dorfe
[18] No. 18, Der stürmische Morgen
[19] No. 19, Täuschung
[20] No. 20, Der Wegweiser
[21] No. 21, Das Wirtshaus
[22] No. 22, Mut!
[23] No. 23, Die Nebensonnen
[24] No. 24, Der Leiermann