Franz Schubert’s 'Winterreise' as Reinterpreted by Barbara Kinga Majewska: Aesthetics and Rhetoric
Ryszard Daniel Golianek
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3775-0732
Abstract
The CD Kinga Majewska and Emilia Sitarz Play Franz Schubert ‘Winterreise’, released in 2015 by Bôłt Records, is one of the most interesting examples of the reinterpretation of outstanding historical musical works by young experimental performers. Singer Barbara Kinga Majewska (b. 1982) and pianist Emilia Sitarz (b. 1978) presented an original version of Schubert’s song cycle, with elements typical of postmodernist aesthetics: a combination of various traditions and styles, numerous forms of decomposition and an idiosyncratic treatment of the original.
This article analyses and interprets the contents of the CD, as well as assessing the results of the artists’ work in a wider aesthetic and rhetorical context. The artistic means they applied and, in particular, their distinctive narrative-rhetorical concept of Schubert’s cycle show that they intended to create an original work, which can be viewed not merely as an arrangement or a cover, but as a congenial translation of the Romantic song-cycle type of expression into the realm of contemporary sensibilities and aesthetics.
Keywords:
Winterreise, Franz Schubert, Barbara Kinga Majewska, song cycle, reinterpretation, rhetoricReferences
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Ryszard Daniel GolianekAdam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3775-0732
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