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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-2015, nonfiction, music, austria, vienna, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lit-crit, lit-richer, lifestyles-deathstyles, bellybutton-mining, poetry, romanticism, philosophy, existentialism
Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners
Read from December 26, 2014 to January 02, 2015
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vk6ktDescription: 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.
Francis Livingston, Mid Winter Journey, Oil on Panel, 36" x 48"
1/5 Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Schubert's powerful song-cycle Winterreise. 2/5 Tenor Ian Bostridge explores the political context of Schubert's song-cycle. 3/5 Ian Bostridge examines Schubert's songs Einsamkeit, Die Post and Der greise Kopf. 4/5 How Schubert's composition challenged the social and political order of his day. 5/5 Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. Ian Bostridge concludes his exploration. Winter Journey: songs from Schubert's 'Winterreise'
Ian Bostridge
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