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Wintry passions

A master-tenor deconstructs a piece of music he has sung 100 times

Wintry water

Schubert’s Winter Journey: An Anatomy of an Obsession. By Ian Bostridge. Knopf; 544 pages; $29. Faber and Faber; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk

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