In one of his last recordings, Jon Vickers – the greatest heroic tenor of his era – relives Schubert’s Winterreise with the almost hallucinatory intensity he also brought to such operatic roles as Tristan, Otello and Peter Grimes. He reveals the secrets of his interpretative powers on the companion disc; it contains a public interview given in 1998 at London’s Barbican Centre to broadcaster Jon Tolansky, who describes Vickers as “a titanic singer”.

Disc 1
01 Winterreise: Gute Nacht  - Jon Vickers/Geoffrey Parsons
02 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Die Wetterfahne  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
03 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Gefrorne Trnen  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
04 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Erstarrung  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
05 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Der Lindenbaum  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
06 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Wasserflut  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
07 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Auf Dem Flusse  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
08 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Rckblick  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
09 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Irrlicht  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
10 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Rast  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
11 Winterreise: Frühlingstraum  - Jon Vickers/Geoffrey Parsons
12 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Einsamkeit  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
13 Winterreise: Die Post  - Jon Vickers/Geoffrey Parsons
14 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Der Greise Kopf  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
15 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Die Krhe  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
16 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Letzte Hoffnung  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
17 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Im Dorfe  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
18 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Der Strmische Morgen  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
19 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Tuschung  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
20 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Müller) : Der Wegweiser  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
21 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Das Wirtshaus  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
22 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Mut  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
23 Winterreise D.911 (Wilhelm Mller) : Der Nebensonnen  - Jon Vickers - Geoffrey Parsons
24 Winterreise: Der Leiermann  - Jon Vickers/Geoffrey Parsons

Disc 2
01 The audience welcomes Jon Vickers  - Jon Vickers
02 Jon Vickers' career from the beginning in Canada up to early performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden  - Jon Vickers
03 Fidelio with Otto Klemperer  - Jon Vickers
04 a) Beethoven - Fidelio. Act 2: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!... In des Lehens Frühlingstagen - b) Observations on singing technique  - Jon Vickers
05 Tristan und Isolde  - Jon Vickers
06 Peter Grimes; Jon Vickers' philosophy of performance  - Jon Vickers
07 Presentation of Amici di Verdi medal to Jon Vickers by Sir Edward Downes  - Jon Vickers