![]() ![]() ![]() This is emphatically not a narrow musicological monograph. ![]() Yet far from being bored by its challenges or feeling that any sort of limit has been reached, he is still, as the subtitle suggests, compulsively traversing its complex landscape of moods and meanings. Well, here it is, and it’s an impressive success: a long-gestated, intensely enjoyable study of Schubert’s Winterreise (‘Winter Journey’), the series of twenty-four linked songs composed to texts by Wilhelm Müller in 1827, months before Schubert’s early death from syphilis.īostridge has known this uniquely haunting work by heart for some thirty years and, as well as recording his constantly evolving interpretation on CD and film, he has performed it in concert halls all over the world ‘around a hundred times’. A few years back when reviewing for this magazine Ian Bostridge’s A Singer’s Notebook – a collection of his occasional essays and passing reflections – I expressed the hope that such an intellectually distinguished classical tenor would attempt something more coherent and ambitious. ![]()
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