Read my review in the Style section of the Washington Post today:
Charles T. Downey, Tenor Brings Schubert to Life
Washington Post, April 7, 2009
Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Julius Drake (piano)
Shriver Hall (Baltimore, Md.)
Program (all songs by Schubert):
Im Frühling, D.882 | Über Wildemann, D.884 | Der liebliche Stern, D.861 | Tiefes Leid, D.876 | Auf der Bruck, D.853 | Aus "Heliopolis" I, D.753 | Aus "Heliopolis" II, D.754 | Abendbilder, D.650 | Ins stille Land, D.403 | Totengräbers Heimweh, D.842 | Auf der Riesenkoppe, D.611 | Sei mir gegrüsst, D.741 | Dass sie hier gewesen, D.775 | Die Forelle, D.550 | Des Fischers Liebesglück, D.933 | Fischerweise, D.881 | Atys, D.585 | Nachtviolen, D.752 | Geheimnis (An Franz Schubert), D.491 | Im Walde (Waldesnacht), D.708
Encores:
Normans Gesang, D.846 | An die Laute, D.905
Ian Bostridge is on the board of the new British conservative intellectual magazine Standpoint and writes a (mostly) monthly column for it on music. If you want to catch up on the columns you missed, follow these links:
- A Passion for Bach (June 2008)
- Mozart and the Mob (July 2008)
- There's No Place Like Home for a Singer (August 2008)
- The Subtle Subversive (October 2008 -- on pop music and the "Death of Classical Music")
- Suffer the Children (November 2008)
- Serious Music for Serious Times (December 2008)
- Timing Is Everything (January 2009)
- Enough to Make You Spit (February 2009)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (March 2009)
Schubert, Winterreise, Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, dir. David Alden
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