Schubert Winter Way: Anatomy of Obsession

The Winter Way is twenty -four songs for the voice and piano, composed by Franz Schubert at the end of his short life. This cycle is undoubtedly a great work that has the right to take a place in a universal heritage near the poetry of Shakespeare and Dante, the painting of Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, the novels of the sister Bronte and Marseille Proust. It is fulfilled and makes a strong impression in the concert halls around the world, no matter how far it is the native culture of listeners from the Vienna musical environment of the 1820s.
The author of the book Ian Bostrid, the famous British tenor, performing this cycle, talks about his own wanderings along the "Winter Way". His light, elegant, air sketches will help to clarify and deepen our impressions of music, enrich the perception of those who are already familiar with this work, and interest those who have not heard it or even about it