Ian Bostridge on Zender's Dark Mirror: Schubert's Winterreise

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 interpretation’ Schubert’s Winterreise, his “Winter Journey”, a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano, is the monstre sacré of the German classical Lieder tradition, a landmark in the history of Romanticism, and an inspiration to numerous cultural icons from ...

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