Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Winter Words for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.52

The tenor and pianist pair Britten and Schubert in their Lieder recital on the stage of the Großer Saal. 

The tenor man told Thomas Hardy’s familiar verses with such probing honesty that I heard newness in all of them.

Julius Drake, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Mark Padmore contributed their notable gifts of piano, viola and voice respectively in a very special, often heartfelt fundraising evening for two music education charities. 

If Chest is not yet the finished article, he’s damned close.

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