Song and Self [electronic resource] : A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance
Ian Bostridge2023
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Accustomed to being centre stage, international award-winning singer Ian
Bostridge, like so many performers, spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take
part in live music. It led him to question an identity previously defined by
communicating directly with audiences. This enforced silence allowed Bostridge
the opportunity to explore the backstories of some of the many works that he has
performed - works such as Claudio Monteverdi's seventeenth-century masterpiece
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Schumann's ever popular song cycle
Frauenliebe und Leben. The complex world of a single song by Ravel from the
Chansons madécasses has always haunted and unnerved Bostridge, while his
immersion in Benjamin Britten's confrontations with death, in life and art, have
given him much food for thought. Based on his Berlin Family Lectures, delivered
at the University of Chicago in the Spring of 2020, Bostridge guides us on a
fascinating journey beneath the surface of these iconi...
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Author:
Ian Bostridge, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Faber & Faber, 2023
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1 online resource (1 text file) (2124792.0 Bytes,)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780571379019
Language:
English
BRN:
433269
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |