Schubert - Einsamkeit (Winterreise-Liederzyklus)

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

Schubert - Einsamkeit (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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLG1o-ADEc&list=PLDOx7nx0z2hjnx4KwsHVRf4UlFfcGatL_

Lyrics

Wie eine trübe Wolke
Durch heit're Lüfte geht,
Wenn in der Tanne Wipfel
Ein mattes Lüftchen weht:

So zieh ich meine Straße
Dahin mit trägem Fuß,
Durch helles, frohes Leben
Einsam und ohne Gruß.

Ach, daß die Luft so ruhig!
Ach, daß die Welt so licht!
Als noch die Stürme tobten,
War ich so elend,
So elend nicht.

Ach, daß die Luft so ruhig!
Ach, daß die Welt so licht!
Als noch die Stürme tobten,
War ich so elend,
So elend nicht.

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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Araiza