Mark Padmore tenor; Paul Lewis piano

Note

This is a repeat concert from 14 February

Performers

Mark Padmore

tenor

Paul Lewis

piano

Programme

Schubert

Winterreise

About this concert

In the early months of 1827, Schubert’s friends were profoundly disturbed by the composer’s agitated condition while creating what he succinctly described as a ‘cycle of awe-inspiring songs’. Winterreise examines suicidal despair through the prism of a great artist’s imagination.

Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis have charted the work’s oceanic depths in a Gramophone Awardwinning recording and in an evolving concert interpretation saturated with subtle nuance and poetic inflection.

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2011–12 Wigmore Series