8 SCHUBERT 1827 [PADMORE & MIDDLETON]

Schubert: Winterreise, D.911

Mark Padmore, tenor
Joseph Middleton, piano

In high summer, we leave for a chilling, winter journey. Through some of the most memorable songs he ever wrote, Schubert tells the story of a young man, disappointed in love, leaving home and losing himself in the winter landscape. Walking further and further from home – physically and mentally – he encounters strange characters and creatures and ominous landmarks. There is probably no other song cycle in which the piano is so much the dramatist as this, reflecting both the inner turmoil of the singer as well as setting the scenes in this icy world. Both Mark Padmore and Joseph Middleton have lived with this music for decades and performed it with many different partners: they bring a profound knowledge and insight, but above all their own intense interpretation of this wonderful music.