Franz Schubert's "Winterreise"

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Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake bring a masterly command of vocal nuance and style to Schubert's late masterpiece, a bleak, powerfully cathartic song cycle written in the last months of the composer's life. A young man, rejected by his beloved, wanders into the darkness of a wintry countryside, wracked by searing emotions-- grief, anger, loneliness and alienation, touched with brief moments of reconciliation.

Speaker Biography: Ian Bostridge is an artist of major prominence in the realms of opera, recitals and orchestra engagements. He has been acclaimed as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters onstage today.

Speaker Biography: British pianist Julius Drake is one of the foremost collaborative pianists on the international concert scene. He is a longtime recital partner of Ian Bostridge.

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