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 ...

In preparing to sing Schubert’s great depiction of a winter journey, I’ve drawn on Beckett’s sardonic humour as well as Bob Dylan’s guttural rasp, writes Ian ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ian Bostridge is not a classical singer. Yes, he's a tenor, and what he does is vocal performance, and it's strikingly compelling. But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain ...

A concert performance of Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” ends like nothing else in music. The famed cycle for male voice and piano encompasses 24 songs and lasts 75 minutes. Set to the poetry of ...

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Hertz Hall was a full house on March 17. The day was no different for world-class musicians and esteemed Schubert players Mark Padmore (vocalist) and Mitsuko Uchida (piano), both with lengthy careers ...

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 ...

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 ...