Schubert’s Winter Journey 

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Laurence Wareing

Kirsteen Cameron

Book of the Week: Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey: Episode 1

Schubert's Winter Journey

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Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 1

Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Schubert's powerful song-cycle Winterreise.

Tenor Ian Bostridge examines Schubert's enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey; considered one of classical music's most powerful compositions.

Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. Composed in 1827, this powerful song-cycle for voice and piano uses twenty-four poems by Wilhem Muller and is considered one of classical music's most powerful compositions.

Drawing upon his experience as a performer (he has performed Winterreise more than a hundred times), on his musical knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to explore the world Schubert inhabited.


Ian Bostridge is recognised as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters today. He has made numerous award-winning recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals throughout Europe, North America and the Far East. He was the original Caliban in Thomas Ades's The Tempest, and played Aschenbach in the landmark 2007 production of Britten's Death in Venice at ENO. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at the University of Oxford in 2014-15.


Read by Ian Bostridge

Written by Ian Bostridge

Abridged by Laurence Wareing

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

Book of the Week: Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey

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Tenor Ian Bostridge examines Schubert's enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise.

Tenor Ian Bostridge examines Schubert's enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter Journey. Read by the author. Abridged by Laurence Wareing.

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