One journey, two very different destinations...

This winter, as ever, we have been treated to yet more accounts of Schubert's Beckettian song-cycle Winterreise . And I have no doubt th...

False Spring

Yesterday, after lunch, I sat at the piano and played my favourite Schubert song, 'Frühlingsglaube'. As so often with Schubert, ther...

The Best of 2013... in Recorded Music

1. Mahler's Sixth Symphony by the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly (Accentus Music) This film of Chailly's 2012 perf...