Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now

Ian Bostridge delivers his lecture, 'Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now', as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music and Music Education at the University of Oxford, 18 November 2014. In this lecture, Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert’s Winterreise cycle, which he views as one of the crucial works of the Western imagination. * Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge designed to bring leading academics, practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and co-ordinated in Cambridge by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and in Oxford by the Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH).