Goings on About Town Classical Notes

The year’s best CDs, in alphabetical order.

Issue of 2005-01-17

Schubert, “Winterreise”— Recordings from two utterly different tenors illuminate Schubert’s desolate cycle… Jon Fredric West (on Medici Classics), with Jerome Rose at the piano, harks back to an age when hefty Wagnerian voices tackled this piece with unabashed emotion.