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Renowned Schubert interpreter Ian Bostridge revisits Winterreise, the greatest of all song cycles, on his first PENTATONE album. Bostridge presents this masterpiece together with pianist, conductor and composer Thomas Adès, who bases his profound accompaniment on a fresh engagement with the original manuscripts. Winterreise is the epitome of Romantic melancholia, written by a composer aware of his fatal illness but at the height of his creative powers. It is the first instalment of a trilogy of PENTATONE recordings comprising the major Schubert song cycles. After Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang will follow.
Ian Bostridge is one of the most celebrated tenors and lied interpreters of his generation. Thomas Adès is best known as a composer but demonstrates his extraordinary skills as a song accompanist on his first PENTATONE recording.
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Reviews
Winner of Vocal Music Category
ICMA Award 2020
Robert Cummings - Recording of the year 2019
“Bostridge's Winterreise may generate a little controversy but to me this performance becomes an engrossing experience. He is abetted by the fine accompaniment of Thomas Adès.”
MusicWeb-International.com - 2019
“… Bostridge, with his sweet and open tone, and Adès, who can drill down to the core of this astounding music, are two superb communicators with a great empathy and understanding of each other. Their partnership ensures that this engrossing and special reading of the tragic winter odyssey does not disappoint…” *****
Steve Moffat – Limelightmagzine.com.au – 17 December 2019
Nominee for Vocal Recording of the Year Award 2019
Limelight magazine Recordings of the Year Award 2019 Nominee
Pizzicato Supersonic
“… Supported by Thomas Ades, who fully share his emotional view, Bostridge succeeds in creating a rare unity of the music by combining the individual songs into a single line of thought. Fully captivated by the music, the listener absorbs this confession of a young, rejected lover and follows his path to the tragic end.”
Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – October 2019
Choral & Song Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
"... There's a terrifying icy detachment in Adès evocative touch ... In this devastating, brilliant interpretation, Bostridge's tone is dark, expressive and fluid ..."
Sarah Urwin Jones - BBC Music magazine - December 2019
“…The tenor’s imagination and interpretative skill is made evident at almost every turn…But Bostridge’s reluctance – or inability – to leave a phrase uncoloured, to leave words unpointed, here feels like an inevitable part of a compelling whole…It might arguably be as much Bostridge’s Winter Journey as Schubert’s, yes, but I’m not sure there are many recordings of this ever-astonishing work that are more compelling.”
Gramophone magazine – Awards Issue 2019
“If any audience is present here, they leave no audible sign. Maybe listeners were immobilised by wonder, struck dumb by the impact and wide range of Bostridge’s voice — beautiful, ugly, anguished, tender, robust, bleached...Right from the footstep tread launching the first song, Adès’s piano accompaniment never falters in its imaginative response to imagery and emotional mood...superb artistry brings its own joys.” *****
The Times – 30 August 2019
Recording of the Week
“What fresh insights has Bostridge uncovered in the intervening years? Short answer: plenty. One of the remarkable things about this new reading is just how much of the extensive scholarly work which both he and Adès have undertaken translates readily into sound...the balance between pointing up the work’s strange modernity and engaging with its historical context is immaculately judged, and much of the beauty of the interpretation stems from the contrast between the two”
Presto Classical – 23 August 2019
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