Ian Bostridge
Language available : englishIan Bostridge is perhaps the best-known English tenor to emerge since the death of Peter Pears. He has become closely associated with the art song repertory, as well as with the music of Benjamin Britten. Bostridge was born on December 25, 1964, in London. Before becoming a singer, he obtained his PhD in history and philosophy from St. John's College of Oxford. However, reaching the finals of both the Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber competitions and winning the 1991 National Federation of Music Societies/Esso Award proved decisive in moving him toward a career in singing. The Young Concert Artists Trust gave him a financial grant to develop his career, and he debuted at Wigmore Hall in London in 1993. One of his most important early recitals was in 1994 at the Purcell Room, where he gave a highly acclaimed performance of Schubert's Winterreise. In the same year, he made his first appearance at the Aldeburgh Festival. Since then, he has become strongly associated with the music of the festival's founder, Benjamin Britten. He made his first New York appearances in 1998 at the Frick Collection and in 1999 at Alice Tully Hall. In 1998, he debuted at the Munich Festival in L'incoronazione di Poppea. His debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was in 1999. His operatic debut was in 1994 at the Covent Garden Festival's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1995, he sang his first solo recital at Wigmore Hall and increased his European recital presence with appearances in Lyon and Cologne. His debut with the English National Opera was in Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1996, and he was acclaimed for his seductive portrayal in Britten's The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2010, he sang in the premiere of Henze's Opfergang, a setting for voices and orchestra of a poem by Franz Werfel. He is in much demand as a recital singer, and in that capacity, has sung on several volumes of Hyperion's epochal complete Schubert song collection (including the recording of Die schöne Müllerin). He has also issued recordings of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, songs of Reynaldo Hahn, a program of little-known Britten songs, and one volume of Jecklin-Disc's set of the complete songs of Othmar Schoeck. Three Baroque Tenors, music written for the era's famous voices (all of them sung by Bostridge himself), was released in 2011. Bostridge's concert repertory recordings include Bach's Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion, Handel's Israel in Egypt, Stravinsky's Cantata, most of the Britten orchestral song cycles for tenor voice, the Mozart Requiem, Finzi's Die Natalis, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, and Michael Nyman's Noises, Sounds, & Sweet Airs. The year 2016 saw two significant Bostridge album releases. One, Songs of Our Ancestors, was a duo with guitarist Xuefei Yang and featured both Western and Chinese repertory (and led to an Asian tour by the pair). His operatic recordings include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and Thomas Adès' The Tempest. Bostridge's album of orchestral Shakespeare songs with conductor Antonio Pappano was honored with a Grammy award for solo vocals in 2017. In 2020, Bostridge, accompanied by Pappano, issued a recording of Beethoven's songs and folksongs, in celebration of the composer's 250th birthday. Bostridge has earned at least 15 Grammy nominations, with three wins, along with a variety of other top classical prizes, as well as designation as Commander of the British Empire. Switching to singing did not put an end to Bostridge's academic writing, and those two aspects of his career have reinforced each other. His 1997 book Witchcraft and Its Transformations did not touch directly on music but achieved a wide general readership. He has written two books on music, A Singer's Notebook (2011) and the much-praised (and much-translated) Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (2015). Bostridge married writer, editor, and publisher Lucasta Miller in 1992, and the couple have raised a son and a daughter.
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Ian Bostridge is perhaps the best-known English tenor to emerge since the death of Peter Pears. He has become closely associated with the art song repertory, as well as with the music of Benjamin Britten.
Bostridge was born on December 25, 1964, in London. Before becoming a singer, he obtained his PhD in history and philosophy from St. John's College of Oxford. However, reaching the finals of both the Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber competitions and winning the 1991 National Federation of Music Societies/Esso Award proved decisive in moving him toward a career in singing. The Young Concert Artists Trust gave him a financial grant to develop his career, and he debuted at Wigmore Hall in London in 1993. One of his most important early recitals was in 1994 at the Purcell Room, where he gave a highly acclaimed performance of Schubert's Winterreise. In the same year, he made his first appearance at the Aldeburgh Festival. Since then, he has become strongly associated with the music of the festival's founder, Benjamin Britten. He made his first New York appearances in 1998 at the Frick Collection and in 1999 at Alice Tully Hall. In 1998, he debuted at the Munich Festival in L'incoronazione di Poppea. His debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was in 1999.
His operatic debut was in 1994 at the Covent Garden Festival's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1995, he sang his first solo recital at Wigmore Hall and increased his European recital presence with appearances in Lyon and Cologne. His debut with the English National Opera was in Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1996, and he was acclaimed for his seductive portrayal in Britten's The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2010, he sang in the premiere of Henze's Opfergang, a setting for voices and orchestra of a poem by Franz Werfel.
He is in much demand as a recital singer, and in that capacity, has sung on several volumes of Hyperion's epochal complete Schubert song collection (including the recording of Die schöne Müllerin). He has also issued recordings of Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe, songs of Reynaldo Hahn, a program of little-known Britten songs, and one volume of Jecklin-Disc's set of the complete songs of Othmar Schoeck. Three Baroque Tenors, music written for the era's famous voices (all of them sung by Bostridge himself), was released in 2011. Bostridge's concert repertory recordings include Bach's Magnificat and St. Matthew Passion, Handel's Israel in Egypt, Stravinsky's Cantata, most of the Britten orchestral song cycles for tenor voice, the Mozart Requiem, Finzi's Die Natalis, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, and Michael Nyman's Noises, Sounds, & Sweet Airs.
The year 2016 saw two significant Bostridge album releases. One, Songs of Our Ancestors, was a duo with guitarist Xuefei Yang and featured both Western and Chinese repertory (and led to an Asian tour by the pair). His operatic recordings include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and Thomas Adès' The Tempest. Bostridge's album of orchestral Shakespeare songs with conductor Antonio Pappano was honored with a Grammy award for solo vocals in 2017. In 2020, Bostridge, accompanied by Pappano, issued a recording of Beethoven's songs and folksongs, in celebration of the composer's 250th birthday. Bostridge has earned at least 15 Grammy nominations, with three wins, along with a variety of other top classical prizes, as well as designation as Commander of the British Empire.
Switching to singing did not put an end to Bostridge's academic writing, and those two aspects of his career have reinforced each other. His 1997 book Witchcraft and Its Transformations did not touch directly on music but achieved a wide general readership. He has written two books on music, A Singer's Notebook (2011) and the much-praised (and much-translated) Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (2015). Bostridge married writer, editor, and publisher Lucasta Miller in 1992, and the couple have raised a son and a daughter.
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Respighi: Songs
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by PentaTone on 27 aug. 2021
Flord impressionism and folk songs. After their acclaimed recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini present a pro ...
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Schumann: Liederkreis & Dichterliebe etc
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 24 dec. 1997
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"Requiem, The Pity of War" (Butterworth, Weill, Mahler...)
Ian Bostridge
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Warner Classics on 26 okt. 2018
Prise de Son d'Exception5 de Diapason5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikTwo composers who in one way or another sang about the horrors of war, and two who lost their lives in it: Ian Bostridge's takes a successful gamble h ...
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Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by PentaTone on 23 aug. 2019
Just like Pears and Britten, Ian Bostridge worked with the composer Thomas Adès on this recording of Schubert's Winterreise, made at a concert at Lond ...
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Beethoven: Songs & Folksongs
Ian Bostridge
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Warner Classics on 10 apr. 2020
5 de DiapasonConductor Antonio Pappano gladly trades in his conductor’s baton for his piano keys in this recording during which he accompanies some of the greatest ...
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Tormento d’Amore
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 2 jul. 2021
Even well into his late fifties, tenor Ian Bostridge remains as popular as ever, and this collection of Baroque arias has had typical commercial succe ...
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (Live)
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by PentaTone on 6 nov. 2020
Ian Bostridge continues his new exploration of Schubert song cycles with a recording of Die schöne Müllerin, together with pianist Saskia Giorgini. Di ...
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Songs from Our Ancestors
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Globe Music on 2 sep. 2016
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Schubert: Lieder
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 1 mei 1998
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Schubert - Wigmore Hall Live
Ian Bostridge
Kamermuziek - Released by Wigmore Hall Live on 13 mei 2014
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The English Songbook
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 1 okt. 1999
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Shakespeare Songs
Ian Bostridge
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Warner Classics on 2 sep. 2016
5 de DiapasonGramophone Editor's Choice5 Sterne Fono Forum Klassik24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: 25 Lieder
Ian Bostridge
Kamermuziek - Released by Warner Classics on 4 jul. 2005
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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été – Ravel: Shéhérazade – Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire (After Debussy's L. 64)
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Seattle Symphony Media on 25 jan. 2019
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Britten: Songs
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 19 apr. 2013
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Perspectives
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 7 feb. 2006
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Le grand Händel
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 16 jul. 2007
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Schubert 4 - Wigmore Hall Live
Ian Bostridge
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Wigmore Hall Live on 13 apr. 2018
This fourth volume of the Lieder was recorded in concert on 16 May 2015 at the famous Wigmore Hall, a veritable temple of chamber music in London buil ...
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Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 30 jan. 2009
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Great Handel
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 9 jul. 2007
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The Three Baroque Tenors (digital exclusive)
Ian Bostridge
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 15 okt. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo