One year before his death in 1828 at the age of 31, Franz Schubert composed the song cycle Winterreise, 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller set to music for voice and piano. Ian Bostridge, a tenor who has performed Winterreise many times, shares his obsession and fascination with this seminal work of the Lied genre in this book. In every one of the 24 chapters one song is discussed in depth, and the wide variety of topics touched on by the author is simply astounding. Much […]