An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle Schubert's Winter Journey
(Winterreise) by a leading interpreter of the work who teases out the themes-literary
historical psychological-that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary
masterpiece. Drawing equally on his vast experience performing this work on his musical
knowledge and on his training as a scholar Ian Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle
meanings of each of the twenty-four lyrics to explore for us the world Schubert inhabited his
biography and psychological makeup the historical and political pressures within which he
became one of the world's greatest composers and the continuing resonances and affinities that
our ears still detect today making Schubert's wanderer our mirror.
