With highly dramatic, text-driven performances, Ian Bostridge has long been one of the UK’s most probing interpreters of German song. Recorded live at London’s Wigmore Hall, this is a programme mixing the familiar with the less-often encountered. Employing a wide emotional range, Bostridge encompasses joyful surrender to nature’s wonders as well as total despair in a song such as "Der Wanderer an den Mond", which seems to draw on a sadness as old as time. Alongside the tenor is Julius Drake, one of today’s most sensitive song-partners.