Schubert : Winterreise. Gilchrist, Tilbrook.

   in Classical Music (Oct, 2011)
James Gilchrist rejects the declamatory style of delivery currently fashionable (each song as overwrought mini-opera) adopting instead a more subtle, understated and – in the long run – more moving approach. This does not mean he is not acutely responsive to the text, and he makes a believably vulnerable journeyman. In the culmination of this pair’s ‘cycle of cycles’, Tilbrook again proves an imaginative, inspired collaborator and the Potton Hall recording is superb. …