Schubert: Die Winterreise | CD review

Güra/Berner(Harmonia Mundi)The tenor Werner Güra has already recorded both Die Schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang for Harmonia Mundi, and this very fine account of Die Winterreise completes what has become one of the most distinguished recent triptychs of Schubert song cycles on disc. Güra's approach, wonderfully lucid, and immaculately controlled and coloured, invites comparisons with the great German tenor Peter Schreier; though he does not push the emotional crises of the cycl...

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