Alan StedmanHere's my musical off the beaten track offering for this week
Schubert's Die Winterreise (winter trip) song cycle was originally written for tenor voice. Schubert composed the cycle in 1827 as he was dying of syphilis. The poems by Wilhelm Muller he chose are mainly melancholic
I first came across the cycle with Peter Pears singing with Benjamin Britten on piano
My favourite version though is by Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano. Enjoy
