Strauss wrote two 'winter' songs, published together in his 1900
Fünf Lieder Op. 48. Unlike 'Winterweihe' (the fourth in the set), which is cosy, domesticated even, 'Winterliebe', number five, truly embraces the season, with a heroic gait, striding out into the winter sunlight. Would that we could all have the optimism of Karl Friedrich Henckell's poem or Strauss's setting, with its bold fanfares. In that manner the songs prefigures Barak's 'Nun will ich jubeln' from
Die Frau ohne Schatten, which Strauss completed the same year as he orchestrated 'Winterliebe'.
Click here to listen to a performance Felicity Lott in Strauss's 1918 orchestral version of the song.
The painting is 'Thunersee mit Stockhornkette' by Ferdinand Hodler.
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