Man, BBC Records turned this one around fast! Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce DiDonato reproduces a live Wigmore Hall recital given only January 16, 2006, and the disc is available to the public in August of the same year. Usually even with live recordings it takes longer than that for a release to surface, but BBC apparently put Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce ...
No one would say that Ian Bostridge is the greatest tenor out there today. No one could imagine him as Rodolfo or Siegfried. But Bostridge may well be the greatest tenor out there today in the right repertoire. His voice is light but strong, his tone is strong but supple, his technique is supple but powerful, and his interpretations are powerful ...
Understandably, there have been few recordings of Benjamin Britten's Canticles. Although the works are both brilliantly written and profoundly affecting, how many performers would dare contend with the performances of the Canticles by Peter Pears, the tenor for whom they were written, with the composer himself at the piano? Not many, as it turns ...
Let's say you don't know a thing about Dmitry Shostakovich, but you've heard people say he was the greatest composer of the 20th century and you're curious to find out what all the fuss is about. Where should you start? Should you start with the Fifth Symphony or the Tenth Symphony, with the Eighth Quartet or the Fifteenth Quartet, with Laurel ...
Compared with his eight operas and his more than 300 songs, Swiss modernist Othmar Schoeck wrote hardly any instrumental music. This disc coupling his 1947 Cello Concerto with his 1956 Cello Sonata represents a third of his concertos and a fifth of his mature sonatas. Thankfully, Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra is not only a consummate virtuoso ...
Born in Delft, mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn apparently shares the traditional Dutch love of the music of Mahler. (As longtime Mahler aficionados will no doubt recall, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam was the first to mount a complete cycle of the Austrian master's symphonies after World War I.) In this 2006 recital, Stotijn selected a ...
Voices are an acquired taste. For many, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the voice of German song of later years. For others, he is a Mack truck flattening helpless Lieder in his path. For many, Maria Callas is the voice of Italian opera in the twentieth century. For others, she is a hysterical and histrionic kook. And so it is with Ian Bostridge. For ...
This 2004 effort, devoted to the songs of Fauré, Debussy, and Poulenc, was Ian Bostridge's first full album of French Song. He brings the same eager devotion to poetry and musical intelligence to this repertory that have informed his recordings of German and English song in the past, but the results are mixed.Debussy's second book of Fêtes ...
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