Schubert/ Mattei/ Nilsson - WinterreisePeter Mattei has won great acclaim as a singer with unusual dramatic gifts, appearing on the world's leading stages in complex operatic roles such as Don Giovanni, Billy Budd and Eugene Onegin. On the present release he takes on a no less complex character in the Lieder canon: the traveller in Schubert's Winterreise. In this cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Mller, whose poems he had set some years earlier, in his other great song cycle,

Through continually absorbing his wonderworks I began to regard the practical side of life

both composers worked on their texts in very different ways

Lower Body

blues is unparalleled in the years since in it's genre blending

charming ways

"The songs just happened

film music

Most Russians make a rough sound

Commemorating the end of the First World War in 1918 and paying homage to DeBussy

dynamic performer

he never composed any other chamber work involving the horn - an oversight that horn players have regretted ever since

The Pilgrim Travelers - The Best Of The Specialty Years 1948-56 / It's a collection which spans the era when they were at the height of their powers