Ian Bostridge

Song and Self (eBook, ePUB)

A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Accustomed to being centre stage, international award-winning singer Ian Bostridge, like so many performers, spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take part in live music. It led him to question an identity previously defined by communicating directly with audiences.

This enforced silence allowed Bostridge the opportunity to explore the backstories of some of the many works that he has performed - works such as Claudio Monteverdi's seventeenth-century masterpiece Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Schumann's ever popular song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. The complex world of a single song by Ravel from the Chansons madécasses has always haunted and unnerved Bostridge, while his immersion in Benjamin Britten's confrontations with death, in life and art, have given him much food for thought.

Based on his Berlin Family Lectures, delivered at the University of Chicago in the Spring of 2020, Bostridge guides us on a fascinating journey beneath the surface of these iconic works. His underlying questions as a performer drive the narrative: what does it mean for audiences when a singer inhabits these roles? And what does a performer's own identity subtract from or add to the identities inherent in the works themselves?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571379019
• Artikelnr.: 64305256

Autorenporträt

Ian Bostridge is universally recognised as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters of today. He has made numerous award-winning recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals regularly throughout Europe, North America and the Far East to outstanding critical acclaim. His books include A Singer's Notebook (2011) and the award winning Schubert's Winter Journey (2016). He is Humanitas Professor of Music at Oxford, and a regular contributor to the Guardian and the TLS.

Rezensionen

Bostridge's new book [Song and Self] shines a light in the corner of often neglected, fragile beauty, and brings that beauty of relevance to current issues of the world we live in - gender, race, and the universality and humanity of death. Yuja Wang