Composers: Schubert
Compositions: Winterreise
Performers: Ian Bostridge t, Thomas Adès p
Catalogue Number: Pentatone PTC5186764

Peter Pears put off performing Schubert’s Winterreise until he was 50 as it was only then that he felt “sufficiently mature” to sing this “old man’s song cycle”.

The work holds no such misgivings for that other great English tenor, Ian Bostridge, who has lived with it for three decades and has recorded...