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Altstaedt, Bostridge und das Aurora Orchestra nehmen den Brexit zum Anlass für ein nachdenkliches, starkes Konzert-Statement.

Trotz räumlicher Herausforderungen zeigt der Tenor Ian Bostridge mit dem hervorragenden Julius Drake am Klavier warum er als Meister der Lieder gilt.

Collon und das Aurora Orchestra lieferten ein farbenreiches Programm mit Sinn und Elan, das wunschgemäß glücklich machte.

Ian Bostridge und das Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment beweisen sich als Advokaten Telemanns und Händels im großen Saal des Wiener Konzerhauses.

Ian Bostridge et Julius Drake proposent une interprétation exceptionnelle du cycle schubertien, sublimée par la mise en scène de Deborah Warner et les lumières de Jean Kalman, jusqu'à l'énigme finale.

Following her Billy Budd and Peter Grimes, Deborah Warner directs a third Britten opera at the Teatro Costanzi. 

Howard Griffiths conducts English music in Belgrade. Ian Bostridge and Nikola Ćirić star and Britten's Serenade and Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony wow the Serbian audience.

Alban Gerhardt and Steven Osborne offered a vivid and memorable reprise of Ben and Slava's iconic recital of 1961. 

Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO demonstrate the mercurial tension in Britten’s Serenade and Elgar’s First Symphony in the season finale. 

Brad Mehldau’s song cycle is a disappointment, the texts selected under the rubric of “desire” proving a major concern.

Magnifiquement interprétée par Les Talens Lyriques et le Chœur de chambre de Namur, l'œuvre de Bach a éclipsé le Stabat Mater de Pergolesi, donné par un B'Rock Orchestra et un René Jacobs en petite forme.

Le Voyage d'hiver recomposé par Hans Zender et interprété par Ian Bostridge et Antonio Pappano s'est avéré décevant à tout point de vue.

Excellent performances and stage direction make a good case for an opera that's on the slow side dramatically.

Entourée de Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Christian Tetzlaff, Alban Gerhardt et Paul Lewis, la phalange parisienne a livré un concert exceptionnel, fidèle à la façon qu'avait Lars Vogt de faire la musique.

Sir Antonio Pappano molds a dramatic yet intimate performance of Britten's great choral work, powerful and moving.

Europa Galante y el Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música se unen en el escenario bajo la dirección de Fabio Biondi para dar vida a Orfeo, de Monteverdi.

Two dozen heroes played one of the house composer’s most intense and technically demanding scores with bravura skill and a collegiate musicality that stirred the spirit.

Le grand duo Bostridge - Drake nous offrent un programme Schubert très personnel dont la légère superficialité ne nous empêche pas de profiter d'un extraordinaire moment de poésie.

Song cycles by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ernest Chausson are paired at the Barbican.

A deep-dive into the world of 14th-century Persian poet, Hafez, and his influence on song across the centuries. 

Qui de mieux que John Adams pour diriger un concert américain ? L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France s'est associé au fameux compositeur pour un concert prometteur mais finalement frustrant, notamment dans la création du jour.

In a world where winter never comes, Ian Bostridge suggested a Cartagenan equivalent of Schubert's Winterreise experiment in which the most unimaginable beauties come at the expense of unbearable pain.

Una orquesta con función de acompañante delegó a los cantantes la inmensa tarea de intentar explicar la muerte, o al menos de nombrarla.

Pappano never put a foot wrong as he dug precious beauties from beneath his fingers.

It’s always a heart-warming sight to see so many young people at the Barbican as members of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain shared the stage with equal composure as the London Symphony Chorus and string players from the LSO.

Britten's War Requiem at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Antonio Pappano conducting

Claus Guth's production of Handel's last oratorio lands in Paris, where William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants and a stellar cast. 

Ian Bostridge and Wenwen Du deliver Schubert's song cycle with great musicianship, but Bostridge lacks the presence that makes live performance a special treat.

Both of these works are united in their depiction of love gained and lost, and embodied Berlioz’s take on love and music, which the composer called, “the two wings of the soul”. 

Avec un tel programme, Ian Bostridge est au cœur de sa zone de confort – et d’excellence – et pourtant, il parvient à aborder ce répertoire sous un angle singulier, aux résonances très actuelles.

Ian Bostridge and Lars Vogt bring their recital tour to Sage Gateshead, where they bring bold physicality to their interpretations of songs by Schubert and Beethoven. 

Shakespeare songs turned out to be more of a Shakespeare feast starring Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostridge and the exceptional Eve Best.

Darkly illuminated music at Berlin's Komische Oper. 

Britten's The Turn of the Screw finally makes its debut at La Scala in Kasper Holten's eerie staging. 

Ian Bostridge's exploration of Britten and Tippett song cycles is overshadowed by a fantastic string quartet in a mixed programme at Aldeburgh.

The OSM closes out the 2015-16 season with all guns blazing and an ethereal flag of peace in a splendid battle of Britten.

Hans Zender's composed interpretation of Schubert's great song-cycle Winterreise, sung by Ian Bostridge, with visuals by Netia Jones, reveals the stark beauty, timelessness and philosophical qualities of Schubert’s music and Mueller’s poetry.

Le ténor anglais Ian Bostridge et le pianiste Julius Drake interprètent finement la détresse du dernier Schubert

Le lyrisme enchanteur d’Ian Bostridge, une Cinquième Symphonie renversante de l’ONL dirigée par Leonard Slatkin.

Lincoln Center' White Light Festival presents Benjamin Britten's Curlew River with an excellent ensemble of singers and musicians. 

Ian Bostridge and Håvard Gimse gave a chilling performance of Schubert's Winterreise, but much of the emotional impact got lost in theatricalities.

British lyric tenor Ian Bostridge presents an outstanding Schubert recital with his regular partner Julius Drake. 

Composed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem is a monumental setting of the words of the Latin Mass, interspersed with the poignant poetry of Wilfred Owen.

Amidst the furore of celebrations for the anniversaries of Verdi and Wagner, the final Chamber Prom of this season gave pause to savour the music of the great English Renaissance lutenist, singer and composer John Dowland, whose 450th birthday also falls this year.

Two figures occupied Usher Hall’s large stage. More accurately, two performers, as there was also a very focused page turner, removing played pages as though they were explosives. Seated at the piano was Lars Vogt, last seen in this hall during Edinburgh Festival 2012 in a joyous performance of Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto.

In last night’s Prom 51, Daniel Harding conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme that was partially planned by Colin Davis and was due to be conducted by him.

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Antonio Pappano led the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Choir, together with first-class soloists, in an intense performance of the War Requiem.

Conductor H.K. Gruber’s visits to the BBC Philharmonic are guaranteed to be unmissable concerts of the season; with unquenchable enthusiasm and pride in the music he programmes, Gruber, (known affectionately to all as “Nali”), always assures a stirring performance.

Sometimes, glancing through reviews and recordings of Baroque opera arias, one might be forgiven for wondering whether tenors and basses ever appeared on the 18th-century stage – the genre seems dominated by the exotic lives of the castrati and the incredibly exciting music that was written for them.