Donning his walking boots for a second journey through the icy landscape of Schubert’s Winterreise, British tenor Mark Padmore is in good company. Most recently both Ian Bostridge and Florian Boesch have revisited the piece, and Fischer-Dieskau famously recorded it no fewer than seven times. These second recordings are a fascinating sub-genre, opening up the space between first thoughts and late reflections, revealing vocal changes as well as freeing up artists to take greater (or at least different) risks, safe in the knowledge that they’ve already set down their marker.
Padmore’s new recording is no exception. The comparison here is with his 2009 recording (also on Harmonia Mundi) with...
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