24 FLAC Discount 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. “What makes this new recording so close to my heart is the partnership with Thomas Adès, whom I’ve worked with so much as composer, conductor and pianist. Touring the piece with him through Europe and the US was a revelation. He brings to the piece a deep searching musical intellect - going back to the manuscript and digging up new readings which the editors have missed - and an imagination which recreates sound and meaning in this, the greatest of all song cycles.” - Ian Bostridge