Ian Bostridge has been singing Schubert’s Winterreise for three decades. He explains why he agreed to approach a work he knows so intimately through the dark mirror of Hans Zender’s ‘composed ...

Benjamin Appl has recorded Winterreise twice – once for BBC TV and once for Alpha Classics. James Jolly speaks to him and his pianist James Baillieu about Schubert’s great song-cycle Five years ago, a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”) is almost relentlessly ...

Like Frederick Douglass, Franz Schubert is an example of somebody who is getting recognized more and more these days, so much so that I was compelled to write about him recently in the magazine—a ...

Ian Bostridge confronts his younger self, Bellini’s first opera flies, and it’s all to play for in tonight’s BBC Young Musician final It sounds such a terrible idea. A “composed interpretation” of ...

It’s time to return to Winterreise. When it comes to Schubert’s “Winter Journey,” I prefer bass-baritones to tenors for one simple reason. The type of tenor who would sing Winterreise isn’t a voice ...

Franz Schubert is largely credited with inventing the classical song cycle, and his 1828 “Winterreise” — or “Winter Journey” — the forlorn reflections of a young man who has lost his love to another, ...

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Recordings of Winterreise featuring fortepiano have tended to feature tenors, presumably because performing the cycle in Schubert’s original keys has been seen as more authentic. Either way, there’s ...