William Kentridge, Matthias Goerne & Markus Hinterhäuser

“I must travel a road where no one has ever yet returned...” In Schubert’s Winterreise, a traveller wounded by unrequited love treks through a desolate winter landscape, longing for the restfulness of death. This song cycle is one of Schubert’s last, and also one of his most poignant. In the concentrated format of the Lied, Schubert succeeds as no one else does in suggesting a wide spectrum of emotions: from intense desire to a bottomless sense of conflict and abandonment. The baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, who have been performing the cycle together for years, plunge into these 24 dramatic songs as a video by the renowned visual artist and our Grand Invité William Kentridge further explores the emotion.