Ian Bostridge | Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

Recorded Feb 6, 2015 English tenor Ian Bostridge is internationally recognized as one of the most talented opera and Lieder singers of his generation. The winner of every major international record prize and a multiple Grammy nominee, he performs all over the world, from La Scala to Carnegie Hall to Schubertiade festivals across Europe. He is currently the Humanitas Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, frequently contributes to The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and is the author of A Singer’s Notebook, a collection of his writings about classical music. In Schubert’s Winter Journey, Bostridge maps the literary, historical, and psychological themes of the Viennese composer’s masterpiece, Winterreise. In conversation with and accompanied by Tim Ribchester