Brigitte Fassbaender sings Schubert: Winterreise

"A stranger I arrived here, a stranger I depart…" Schubert's winter journey into the shattered heart of German romanticism is greater than any one performer, though when an artist of the stature of Brigitte Fassbaender takes that lonely path into the snow, any serious music lover will pay attention. No studio recording of Winterreise can ever match the special intensity of a live performance and on this summer night in Munich in 1990, Fassbaender and her (strikingly alert and sympathetic) musical partner Markus Hinterhäuser – then at the start of his international career – create something unmissable and wholly individual.