This album by tenor
Christoph Prégardien and guitarist
Tilman Hoppstock includes
Hoppstock's arrangements of a selection of
Schubert lieder.
Prégardien's singing is often splendid. He sings like he has these songs in his bones, and there is no posing or studied artifice in his interpretations, so the performances sound utterly honest and wonderfully spontaneous. His tone is warm and sweet, and he has no trouble with the low notes in these songs that tend to bedevil tenors. In addition to 12 songs from Winterreise,
Prégardien and
Hoppstock perform five other
Schubert lieder.
Prégardien has recorded Winterreise three times, so listeners looking for his performance of the complete cycle should check out those recordings.