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Ian Bostridge on Tormento d'amore
28th Mar 2022
The English tenor discusses his recent album of arias from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian operas, featuring music by composers including Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella and Sartorio.
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Beethoven songs and folksongs from Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano
24th Jul 2020
The tenor and pianist are joined by violinist Vilde Frang and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt for selections from the Scottish and Irish folk-songs, following an exquisitely tender account of An die ferne Geliebte.
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Winterreise from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès
23rd Aug 2019
Fifteen years on from his first audio recording of the work, the British tenor retraces Schubert’s 'Winter Journey' with a new companion in an unsettling, unsentimentalised interpretation that’s underpinned by years of scholarship on both sides.
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Ian Bostridge on Requiem: The Pity of War
14th Jan 2019
The tenor talks to Katherine about his recent recording of songs by Mahler, George Butterworth, Rudi Stephan and Kurt Weill with Antonio Pappano, released at the end of October on Warner Classics.
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Requiem: The Pity of War from Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano
26th Oct 2018
The tenor and pianist join forces for a programme of Butterworth, Rudi Stephan, Kurt Weill and Mahler to commemorate the centenary of Armistice Day next month.
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Ian Bostridge sings Britten songs
29th Apr 2013
The tenor brings formidable musical intelligence to the Michelangelo Sonnets, Who are these children?, Winter Words and the Hölderlin Fragments (with Antonio Pappano), and is joined by guitarist Xuefei Yang for Songs from the Chinese.
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The Three Baroque Tenors
25th Oct 2010
Ian Bostridge explores music which was tailor-made for John Beard, Francesco Borosini and Annibale Po Fabri, including arias by Handel, Arne, Boyce, Caldara and Alessandro Scarlatti and accompanied by The English Concert.
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Padmore and Bostridge sing Handel
11th Jun 2007
Two leading English tenors tackle opera and oratorio arias, including Jupiter’s ‘Where’er you walk’ from Semele, Jephtha’s ‘Waft her, angels’, and Samson’s ‘Total eclipse’.
