Winterreise is a performance of Schubert’s harshly beautiful song cycle accompanied by German artist Mariele Neudecker’s series of 24 short films.
The collection of songs are performed with simple yet intense expressivity by bass-baritone Andrew Foster Williams and pianist Christopher Gould. Following the line of latitude 60 degrees north, Neudecker's films cross a snow-covered Europe from the Shetland Islands to St Petersburg. Meanwhile, the songs chart the physical and psychological journey of a rejected lover through a frozen landscape. The combination is compelling.
Mariele Neudecker - Video
Andrew Foster Williams – Vocals
Christopher Gould – Piano
Mariele Neudecker is German born and has studied and worked in Britain since 1985 (Goldsmith’s College, BA, 1990, Chelsea School of Art, London, MA, 1992). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the I-Space, Krannert Art Museum, Chicago (1999); the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2000); Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (2001)
Andrew Foster Williams was born in Lancashire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he was recently made an Associate. Operatic appearances include Garibaldo Rodelinda and Melisso Alcina at the Göttingen Handel Festival and Don Fernando Fidelio for Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
Christopher Gould read Music at Clare College, Cambridge before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied accompaniment with John Streets and Malcolm Martineau. In 1996 he was the first young pianist to receive an award from The Geoffrey Parsons Trust; this was followed by the Gerald Moore Award (1998) and the first prize in the Wigmore International Song Competition (2001).
“It was staggeringly beautiful. The combination of the voice of Andrew Foster-Williams and the visual work of Mariele Neudecker transfixed me...” Audience member
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
23rd April 2003
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
8th June 2003
National Centre for Early Music, York
12th June 2003
Lakeside Art Centre, Nottingham
18th June 2003
St Georges, Bristol
4th December 2003
Halifax, West Yorkshire
15th January 2004
Baltic, Newcastle
22nd January 2004
Lowry, Manchester
30th January 2004
Keswick, Lake District
20th February 2004
Shaw Room, National Gallery, Dublin
23rd January 2005
The Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House, London
13th February 2005
All Saints Church, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
13th May 2005
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham International Festival of Music
6th July 2005
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