Schubert - Der Wegweiser (Winterreise-Liederzyklus)

Recorded in a Romanesque chapel in 1993
Francisco Araiza - tenor
Jean Lemaire - piano

Schubert - Der Wegweiser(song-cycle "Winterreise")

Only one year before his death, Franz Schubert created his masterpiece, “Winterreise”, a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Mueller. The beauty and the tragedy of this work are wonderfully interpreted by the tenor Francisco Araiza and by the pianist Jean Lemaire. They offer us a marvelous interpretation of Schubert’s great song cycle.
The internationally-acclaimed Mexican lied singer Araiza has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America.

Watch the whole song cycle:    • Schubert - Der Leiermann (Winterreise-Lied...  

Lyrics

Was vermeid' ich denn die Wege,
Wo die ander'n Wand'rer geh'n,
Suche mir versteckte Stege,
Durch verschneite Felsenhöh'n?
Suche mir versteckte Stege,
Durch verschneite Felsenhöh'n?
Durch Felsenhöh'n?

Habe ja doch nichts begangen,
Daß ich Menschen sollte scheu'n,
Daß ich Menschen sollte scheu'n,
Welch ein törichtes Verlangen
Treibt mich in die Wüstenei'n?
Treibt mich in die Wüstenei'n?

Weiser stehen auf den Straßen,
Weisen auf die Städte zu.
Und ich wandre sonder Maßen
Ohne Ruh' und suche Ruh',
Und ich wandre sonder Maßen
Ohne Ruh' und suche Ruh',
Und suche Ruh'.

Einen Weiser seh' ich stehen
Unverrückt vor meinem Blick;
Eine Straße muß ich gehen,
Eine Straße muß ich gehen,
Die noch keiner ging zurück.

Einen Weiser seh' ich stehen
Unverrückt vor meinem Blick;
Eine Straße muß ich gehen,
Die noch keiner ging zurück,
Die noch keiner ging zurück.

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José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950), is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during the course of a lengthy career. Born in Mexico City, he studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de México and later in Germany, with Mozartian tenor Richard Holm, and lieder interpretation with Erik Werba. He made his operatic debut in 1970 in Mexico City as First Prisoner in Beethoven's Fidelio. Araiza initially came to international prominence singing in Mozart and Rossini operas, but in the 1980s broadened his repertoire to include Italian and French lyric tenor roles and Wagnerian roles such as Lohengrin and Walther von Stolzing. He was made a Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera in 1988. Now retired from the opera stage, he teaches singing and serves on the juries of several international singing competitions.
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