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An exploration of the worlds most famous and challenging song cycle, Schuberts Winter Journey Winterreise, by a leading interpreter of the work, who teases out the themesliterary, historical, psychologicalthat weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece.Completed in the last months of the young Schuberts life, Winterreise has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music in the history of Lieder. Deceptively laconicthese twenty-four short poems set to music for voice and piano are performed uninterrupted in little more than an hourit nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no music of its kind has ever equaled. A young man, rejected by his beloved, leaves the house where he has been living and walks out into snow and darkness.