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 ...

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 ...

Ian Bostridge confronts his younger self, Bellini’s first opera flies, and it’s all to play for in tonight’s BBC Young Musician final It sounds such a terrible idea. A “composed interpretation” of ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK - It's not often that the cast of an off-Broadway show serves wine to the audience. The normally frozen landscape of composer Franz Schubert's haunting song cycle, Winterreise, has been ...

A work ahead of its time, the composer’s great song cycle meditates on all our disappointments. By Phil Hebblethwaite “Come over to Schober’s today, and I will sing you a cycle of terrifying songs,” ...

Singers Roderick Williams and David Webb discuss Schubert’s celebrated 1827 song-cycle Winterreise, about a man dealing with rejection and loneliness who journeys through the winter snow. Roderick has ...

Following their ARIA Award-nominated recordings of Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin, David Greco and Erin Helyard complete ...