Eine Winterreise is a show conceived and created by Christof Loy and presented and recorded at Theater Basel in 2022.  What it’s not is Schubert’s Winterreise. with or without staging.  Loy describes it as a “kaleidoscopic” look at Schubert’s life through his music.  So the show is a compendium of Schubert’s vocal and instrumental music with a bit of spoken text.  It runs about 100 minutes but only 24 or so are music from Winterreise, of which only six of the twenty-four songs are included.

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