The Next Track Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
Apr 17, 2020
40:03
We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.
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Guest:
Show notes:
- Lieder (Wikipedia)
- Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian)
- Ravel: Chansons madécasses
- Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
- Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color
- Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014)
- Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015)
- Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750
Our next tracks:
- Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters
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Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.