Ian Bostridge reviews
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Bostridge/Giorgini)
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Saskia Giorgini (piano) (Pentatone)
Beethoven: Songs and Folksongs
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) (Warner Classics)
Schubert: Songs, Vol. 3
Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake (Wigmore Hall Live)
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Requiem: The Pity of War
Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics)
A chilling performance of Schubert’s Winterreise at the Wigmore Hall
‘Bostridge’s weary wanderer cries out against an unlistening world’
Bach: St Matthew Passion
A full decade has elapsed since John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning recording for Archiv set a new standard for interpreting the St Matthew Passion. Although a 'historically aware' account, it was (with hindsight) sufficiently expressive and dramatically engaged to win the affections of those suckled on Furtwängler, Klemperer, or Karajan: even they would dissent from the appalled old noblewoman at an early performance who likened the work to ‘an Opera Comedy’.