‘After silence,’ observed Aldous Huxley, ‘that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.’

The seemingly infinite expressive range and invention of Schubert’s songs, explored in depth by
Ian Bostridge in his Wigmore Hall Schubert Series, inform everything from the wild energy of
‘Der Strom’ to the rapt contemplation of his sublime setting of ‘Die Sterne’.