Schubert's Winterreise ("Winter Journey") is, by common accord, the darkest song cycle ever composed - in a tone of ever deepening despair, it follows a spurned lover who stumbles through chilly scenes of winter for some two dozen laments (penned by Wilhelm Müller, who also supplied the texts for Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, another ode to love gone wrong that's equally tragic but not nearly as bleak). &nb…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 04:44PM on February 18, 2014