Winterreise – Ian Bostridge & Jan Schultz
Folk songs and Ländler in Schubert’s music VIII
Chamber Music
Monday, 20 August 2018
7.30 pm, Rougemont Church
1827. Schubert was 30 years old. And he knew that he was slowly dying. Fatigue, despair, solitude, wandering: the poems of Wilhelm Müller resonated in his ear and spirit with great force and inspired him to write his greatest song cycle, a prelude to his even greater final works (the last piano sonatas, the Quintet with two cellos…). An overwhelming “winter journey”, the romantic “wanderer” lost in the cold, ending his voyage next to the sorrowful “Hurdy-Gurdy Man”, nagged by dogs… And the perfect object of expression for English tenor Ian Bostridge accompanied in an “authentic manner” by Jan Schultsz on a fortepiano.
Ian Bostridge, Tenor
Jan Schultsz, Hammerklavier
| Franz Schubert (1797-1828) | |
| “Winterreise”, song cycle, D 911 | 70' |
| CHF 80 / 60 / 40 |