For many years a highlight of the Barbican's programming has been the surveys of composers' works put on by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. It is a change to find a performer heading a strand of concerts, as in the series cryptically entitled "Homeward Bound", planned around the tenor Ian Bostridge.

Over two seasons this is reaching into every corner of what Bostridge sings, from Elizabethan song to Britten's operas. There had to be a place for Schubert's Lieder, since that is how Bostridge made his reputation, and at Monday's recital he set out to climb the peak of this repertoire along with soprano Dorothea Röschmann and baritone Thomas Quasthoff.