Two towering musical figures come together to perform Schubert’s late song cycle. Simon Keenlyside and Emanuel Ax share a profound love for the composer’s music. They embark here on the haunting spiritual and emotional journey of Winterreise, settings of two dozen poems by Wilhelm Müller that contemplate a solitary wanderer’s yearning for death and final reconciliation to his eternal loneliness.

Schubert spoke of these ‘spine-chilling songs’ and told his friend Josef von Spaun that they ‘have affected me more than has been the case with any other of my Lieder’. These performers are blessed with the artistic insights and life experience required to create an unforgettable interpretation of Schubert’s masterwork.