Fuck Yeah Ian Bostridge!

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:02:29 -0700

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Click through for a bigger version. Thanks for the link, Anon!

europeancannon: Ian Bostridge sings “Silent Noon” by Ralph...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:01:18 -0700

europeancannon:

Ian Bostridge sings “Silent Noon” by Ralph Vaughan Williams

hedwig-dordt: Ian Bostridge and Mitsuko Uchida performing Die...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:02:25 -0700

hedwig-dordt:

Ian Bostridge and Mitsuko Uchida performing Die schoene Muellering (b/c I still can’t remember how to make umlauts work).

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Tue, 07 May 2013 17:01:32 -0700

operasrsly: I wouldn’t have thought this combination...

Tue, 07 May 2013 13:02:35 -0700

operasrsly:

I wouldn’t have thought this combination possible, but Mr. Bostridge scares me in that. More than just a little!
So awesome.

Masterworks - Britten Serenade with Ian Bostridge, Timothy Brown Sir Colin Davis and BBC Symphony Orchestra (Part 8/9)

“Dirge”

sigmastolen: here are some very important photos from the...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:01:30 -0700

sigmastolen:

here are some very important photos from the curtain call of the Britten Canticles recital in Hamburg [x]

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:02:19 -0700

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:01:40 -0700

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:02:17 -0700

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Carnegie Hall Live 28 March, 2012 - St. John's Passion, IB as Evangelist

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:01:44 -0700

The entire concert plus commentary is still available on this link:

http://www.carnegiehall.org/BlogPost.aspx?id=4294985453

Full text as well as programme notes available as well. Enjoy!

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It’s good to know that this is still available! If you missed listening to this concert last year, get thee to this blog post.

A 2000 interview with Bruce Duffie

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:02:41 -0700

http://www.bruceduffie.com/bostridge.html

recycletig: Mitsuko Uchida and Ian Bostridge at LSO St Luke’s...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:01:26 -0700

recycletig:

Mitsuko Uchida and Ian Bostridge at LSO St Luke’s Barbican after an excellent performance of Benjamin Britten’s songs based on The Holy Sonnets of John Donne.

Available at http://www.smarturl.it/bostridgebrittenIan...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:02:00 -0700

Available at http://www.smarturl.it/bostridgebritten

Ian Bostridge has recorded a programme of songs by Benjamin Britten as part of EMI Classics’ commemoration of the composer’s centenary. The disc features first recordings by Bostridge of the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Songs from the Chinese, Winter Words and four English songs from the late cycle Who are these Children? At the piano for all but Songs from the Chinese is fellow EMI artist Antonio Pappano, with whom Bostridge has previously recorded Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Wolf lieder. In Songs from the Chinese, Bostridge collaborates with another EMI artist, the guitarist Xuefei Yang.

“My love for Britten goes way back to when I was seven. He wrote a lot of wonderful music for children,” Bostridge says. “I was a rat in Noye’s Fludde. … and then I did The Golden Vanity at school and A Ceremony of Carols. I did a lot of Britten as a child and it was in my blood. Then I left it when I was in my 20s. I discovered the songs because I came across an LP of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne in my local record library and I was completely blown away by them. That is when I discovered that Britten was a great lieder writer. … I have sung these songs for a long time. These are songs that are in my repertoire that I have recorded for the first time.

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Thanks for submitting this! The video is blocked in my country, so I would never have seen it!

Meet Ian Bostridge

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:14:00 -0700

Meet Ian Bostridge:

The Britten Sinfonia has posted a short Q&A with our favorite tenor on their blog!

What is your favourite book?
War and Peace.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Oversleeping

Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
Franz Schubert, Albert Einstein, Dr Johnson, Letitia Landon, Jane Austen, Cleopatra

dotseurat: Fake Opera Meme — The Importance of Being Earnest,...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:02:14 -0700

dotseurat:

Fake Opera Meme — The Importance of Being Earnest, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, suggested by tornamiadir

Mr. John Worthing, J.P. — Simon Keenlyside
Mr. Algernon Moncrieff — Ian Bostridge
The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax — Sarah Connolly
Miss Cecily Cardew — Joyce DiDonato

emmadelosnardos: Music: Easter OratorioComposer: JS BachYear:...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:02:04 -0700

emmadelosnardos:

Music: Easter Oratorio
Composer: JS Bach
Year: 1725
Performers: Ian Bostridge, Fabio Biondi; Europa Galante
Photograph: Edward Weston

Bach for Easter! Our local classical music station, WQXR, has been playing all Bach, only Bach (with a few exceptions), for the last 10 days. It has been an amazing listening experience — all of the variety, all of the interpretations — and I wanted to share some Bach with you for Easter. We’ll be celebrating it ‘High Church’ style later today at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine where they will literally pull out all of the stops on both of their enormous organs. But for now, a more intimate Bach oratorio.

¡Felices pascuas!

lucette: Frühlingsglaube | Franz Schubert | Ian Bostridge,...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:02:04 -0700

lucette:

Frühlingsglaube | Franz Schubert | Ian Bostridge, tenor

Balmy breezes are awakened,
They whisper and move day and night,
And everywhere creative.
O fresh scent, o new sound!
Now, poor heart, don’t be afraid.
Now all, all must change.

With each day the world grows fairer,
One cannot know what is still to come,
The flowering refuses to cease.
Even the deepest, most distant valley is in flower.
Now, poor heart, forget your torment.
Now all, all must change.

gatogus: Ian Bostridge “Rosa del ciel” dall’Ópera L’Orfeo di...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:02:19 -0700

gatogus:

Ian Bostridge “Rosa del ciel” dall’Ópera L’Orfeo di C.Monteverdi.

“Rosa del ciel” Aria di Orfeo dall’Ópera L’Orfeo di Claudio Monteverdi.

Ian Bostridge Tenor

Le Concert d’Astrée

Emmanuelle Haïm

Desert Island Discs: Kirsty Young interviews Ian...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:01:20 -0700

Desert Island Discs: Kirsty Young interviews Ian Bostridge

(click through for parts 2-5) (tragically part 3 appears to be forbidden in the USA :/ augh)

The Tempest, “Who was here…” | Thomas Adès,...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:02:25 -0700

The Tempest, “Who was here…” | Thomas Adès, text by Meredith Oakes
Ian Bostridge, Caliban; Cyndia Sieden, Ariel