The new release “Winter Journey” from Signum Classics follows from the performances at the Ryedale Festival and Wigmore Hall of Jeremy Sams’s translation of Franz Schubert’s three great song cycles. Here, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Christopher Glynn perform.
I have interviewed a number of singers, including baritone Benjamin Appl, who have talked about the challenge of getting the audience to understand what the song is about, using color and emotion, without the audience completely understanding the language in which the singer is singing.
