In Memoriam: Jon Vickers
Published:
COMPOSERS: Franz Schubert
LABELS: Warner
ALBUM TITLE: In Memoriam: Jon Vickers
WORKS: Schubert: Winterreise; plus Jon Vickers in conversation with Jon Tolansky
PERFORMER: Jon Vickers (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: Warner 2564603157 (1983/97)
A characteristically individual account, only for specialists of the singer or the cycle as it’s an operatic, sometimes alarming reading. Interesting interview disc too.
Michael Tanner
Authors
Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.