Christoph Prégardien has a prodigious number of musical releases behind him at all the great labels. His career has taken him far and wide with great parts in Mozart’s operas and as a soloist in Bach’s oratorios. But above all, he has won his reputation as an interpreter of the German Lied tradition.His numerous recordings in this genre has awarded him numerous prizes – from the German Music Critics’s Prize to Cannes’ Classical Award.When Prégardien presents a programme consisting of Schubert’s Winterreise, the cycle is in the hands of an experienced master who will be tending to the wanderer’s painful journey towards death.Wilhelm Müller’s poems move through a frozen winter landscape where tears freeze and the cock crows his warnings when spring evokes frisky dreams. The complete cycle is a dramatic tale of the rejected poet that has to give up his dreams of love.