He is regarded as one of the great lieder singers of our time and has delighted audiences in opera houses and concert halls the world. Oct 31, 2008 kirsty youngs castaway this week is the tenor ian bostridge. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. This type of approach certainly contradicts the idea of the singer as a simply intuitive and therefore unthinkingcreature of nature. Somehow he is able to unearth more of the spiritual depths of the great lieder masterpieces than any other performer and make their inherent spirituality much more tangible, more alive and more significant for a contemporary audience. That was part of a complete edition of schubert songs with many artists inspired by one accompanist, graham johnson. If you like an album, buy it in order to support the artists and their work. This blog aspires to share the taste for classical music and to promote its great composers and interpreters. He is humanitas professor of classical music and music education at the. In the five years since singer ian bostridge embarked on a fulltime career, he has become the worlds most sought after lyric tenor in the art song repertoire. In preparing to sing schuberts great depiction of a winter journey, it helps to draw on becketts sardonic humour as much as bob dylans guttural rasp, writes ian bostridge. Ian charles bostridge cbe is an english tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer. Ian bostridge cbe has made regular appearances at the salzburg, edinburgh, munich. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology.
With his favored composers britten and schubert ian bostridge pays vivid attention to text and immaculate phrasing that few of his contemporaries can match. Kirsty youngs castaway this week is the tenor ian bostridge. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. Anatomy of an obsession, ian bostridge one of the works finest interpreters focuses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of lieder. Franz schubert, mitsuko uchida, ian bostridge schubert. In 1795 the young beethoven wrote two sets of piano variations based on arias. I sometimes ponder why it is that i have such an attachment to ian partridges light, grainy tenor and an unmovable antipathy towards another ian, being mr bostridge, who is also evidently a singer very british in timbre and manner but i think that epithet can mean two very different things and only one is meant as a compliment. Bostridges peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller a soulsearching interpretation the performance by the young bostridge is a miracle he brings the naive, impetuous, jealous, ultimately despairing and suicidal boy vividly to life as no other tenor on record and. Ian charles bostridge cbe born 25 december 1964 is an english tenor, well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer. Schuberts song cycle, then and now, as part of his humanitas visiting professorship in classical music and music education at the.
Jan 03, 2015 in preparing to sing schuberts great depiction of a winter journey, it helps to draw on becketts sardonic humour as much as bob dylans guttural rasp, writes ian bostridge. Friday 27 august recital by british tenor ian bostridge and pianist julius drake at the schubertiade at schwarzenberg where they perform regularly. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. We celebrate brittens centenary with a twoweek festival of recitals, operas, a collaboration between the richard alston dance company and britten sinfonia and a threeday event entitled illuminat. The origin of the story about the beautiful maid of the mill is difficult to trace. Public domain compositions, emi music publishing, and 1 music rights societies. He is regarded as one of the great lieder singers of our time and has delighted audiences in. Ian charles bostridge cbe born 25 december 1964 is an english tenor, well known for his. Slipped disc ian bostridge confronts a german heckler. Feature article an interview with ian bostridge, lyric tenor november, 2000 jason serinus. Ian bostridge pays vivid attention to text and immaculate phrasing that few of his contemporaries can match. He died in dessau on october 1, 1827, two weeks shy of his 33rd birthday, but not before he had established a growing reputation as a librarian, critic, editor, translator and poet. Ian bostridge cbe is an acclaimed tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.
Early in 1823 or towards the end of 1822 schubert contracted. At that time, emily was soliciting someone to translate winterreise, and i volunteered. His range is such that his lightness of touch is the most delicate of tenor tones and yet he is equally comfortable in the lower ranges of these songs, sound. Bostridge was born in london, the son of leslie bostridge and lillian nee clark. Considered one of schuberts most important works, it is the first of his two seminal cycles the other being his later winterreise, and a pinnacle of lied. Ian bostridge delivers his lecture, why winterreise. The cds cover the three great song cycles, all with different pianists.
Start your free trial learn more new subscribers only. Ian bostridge on singing schuberts winterreise the guardian. Recorded over a series of live dates, maltman has collaborated with one of the worlds foremost authorities on the lieder repertoire, pianoaccompanist graham johnson. Schubert spent part of the summer in the hospital and probably started workwhile still a patienton his most ambitious opera, fierrabras. The hyperion schubert edition goes from strength to strength. Bostridge s peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller a soulsearching interpretation the performance by the young bostridge is a miracle he brings the naive, impetuous, jealous, ultimately despairing and suicidal boy vividly to life as no other tenor on record and. Considered one of schuberts most important works, it is the first of his two seminal cycles the other being his later winterreise, and a pinnacle of. Renowned schubert interpreter ian bostridge revisits winterreise, the greatest of all song cycles, on his first. Fritz wunderlich, hubert giesen licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of deutsche grammophon dg. Bostridge has a rather sweet, high tenor which is certainly a change after the powerful yet sensitive voice of fischerdiskau which for so many of us became the defining performances of these wonderful songs. Bostridge is the greatgrandson of the tottenham hotspur goalkeeper from the early.
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