Schubert/ Hilz/ Selheim - Winterreise Release:Winterreise Brilliant Classics Increasingly

Increasingly

After reaching the top of Billboard Rock Charts with his previous albums

a return to live performance often brought gains in authority and expressive power

in an assemblage of the band's newest and oldest ideas

with Williams also specialising in his individual brand of "talking blues"

Schubert/ Hilz/ Selheim - Winterreise Release:Winterreise Brilliant Classics IncreasinglyWinterreise, or Winter's Journey was composed in 1827, just a year before Schubert's premature death. The song cycle contains some of his greatest music by turn highly emotional, desolate and spare, and with a sense of alienation and loss that makes the listener shudder even after repeated hearings. Schubert was especially proud of these songs, writing to his friend and fellow composer Josef von Spaun: 'I will sing you a cycle of eerie songs. I am