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English tenor Ian Bostridge’s path to the stage has not been a conventional one. A former aspiring academic with a side hobby of singing German lieder, he only became a professional musician after ...

We’ll explore Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, or Winter Journey – the late great, strange song cycle with tenor Ian Bostridge. Plus: a fresh look at contemporary German pop music. Tenor and author Ian ...

It is hard to think of a better contemporary interpretation of Schubert’s great song cycle “Die Schoene Muellerin” (“The Miller’s Fair Daughter”) than is given on this new EMI recording by tenor Ian ...

But his style of delivery has always been controversial – some say distinctive, others eccentric – and all of those characteristics were heightened here, inspired (or provoked) by Schubert’s ...

Before becoming a professional singer in the mid-1990s, Ian Bostridge was on track for a distinguished academic career. He’d studied history and philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford, earning a Ph.D. for ...

With Symphony Center rationing song recitals as if they were flu shots, it’s all the more important that the few we do get to hear are of the highest quality and performed by the most important ...

Ian Bostridge, an English tenor of rare skill, stood in the crook of the piano, a tall, disturbingly lean figure with elongated arms and torso that bent and swayed to the music. He sang to the floor, ...

Fans of vocal music are often known to lament the present state of singing, usually along the lines of ‘the voices all sound the same’ or ‘you should have heard so-and-so in the good old days.’ Heck, ...

Bostridge has little tone to his voice, though what there is is carefully modulated between the more melodic numbers – “Der Lindenbaum”, “Die Post” – and the drier, more pained ones like “Rückblick” ...