69 - Winterreise - A ballet by Christian Spuck

Franz Schubert’s Winterreise is not only regarded as the zenith of Schubert’s lied composition, but as the pinnacle of German art song in its entirety. German composer Hans Zender arranged the cycle in 1993 and his version for tenor and chamber orchestra reveals the cycle’s potential to disturb. Like Zender, Christian Spuck’s production concerns itself less with illustrating the stations of the traveler’s journey. Instead, it approaches the cycle with thoroughly comprehensive abstraction.