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This recording is a wonderful addition to your CD library. While everyone and his brother (very few sisters) seems to have recorded Schubert’s heartbreaking song cycle, "A Winter’s Journey," no one since Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s landmark offering of 1965 (with Jörg Demus ) has sung these 24 songs with such a combination of pathos and artistry.
Thomas Quasthoff, a 38-year-old German bass-baritone, is a direct descendant of Fischer-Dieskau’s with his mellow tone, faultless intonation, and sensitive partnership with his accompanist, Charles Spencer. He adds to these musical gifts his experience as a thalidomide baby, born with short stature and vestigial arms and hands. Awareness of physical disability disappears, however, as he takes on the persona of the tragic winter wanderer, leaving home and love behind.
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