Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès in Schubert Winterreise at the Wigmore Hall. Please read Claire Seymour's review here in Opera Today. Like all good artists, Bostridge doesn't do autopilot but keeps searching for more. Which is the whole point of Winterreise. The protagonist doesn't stop searching, even when he's reduced to following a beggar, or an apparition thereof. Once it was fashionable to assume that the protagonist must go mad and die, because sensible people don't search. Now, thank goodness we realize that there's more to the human psyche than Biedermeyer home comforts. For goodness sake, think about the text !
Will dich im Traum nicht stören,
Wär schad’ um deine Ruh’
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