Browse: Schubert - Winterreise D911

Kaufmann has come to this music at the right time...Each of these 24 songs is stamped with integrity and seriousness of purpose...The most striking qualities are its artless simplicity, its vocal... — Financial Times, 22nd February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even Bostridge’s sometimes jarring crescendos sound as bleak cries from the hollowed soul. There is a terrifying icy detachment in Adès’s evocative touch. Above it, Bostridge’s weary wanderer... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Perhaps more than any other recording the singer and the pianist are in equilibrium...if often sounds as if Julius Drake has just had an idea - and they are all good ones - and Gerald Finley... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

What is so striking about Pears's performance is its intensity. One continually has the sense of a live occasion...As for Britten, he recreates the music, sometimes with a fair freedom from Schubert's... — Penguin Guide, 2010 edition, 4 out of 4 stars More…

…I cannot think of one (not even Fischer-Dieskau in his 1965 recording with Jörg Demus) that leads more faithfully to the cold comfort at its end. And when we get there in this performance,... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…

Werner Güra's light, lyrical tenor is in immaculately nurtured voice for this deeply considered performance...And it's fascinating to hear what Güra makes of Schubert's ubiquitous line-repetitions,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…