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Music : Ian Bostridge - The English Songbook
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Ian Bostridge - The English Songbook from: EMI List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £8.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724355683021 Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: EMI Release Date: October 04, 1999 Running Time: 69 minutes Studio: EMI Sales Rank: 34453 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Excellent!!Well done, Bostridge!! A great joy everytime I play this CD! His emotion alone makes this collection of songs worthwhile. Rating: - AN INDESCRIBABLY WONDERFUL ALBUMIan Bostridge has one of the most beautiful voices on record, and has shown enormous courage and wisdom in selecting material that will extend and develop his extraodinary gifts. Not all of this material has been a perfect match for his smooth and soaring tenor voice, notably some of Schubert’s more dramatic “lieder”. In contrast, nothing could be more perfectly suited to Bostridge’s gifts than this generous and beautiful collection of traditional English songs by Britten, Finzi, Grainger, Warlock and others. Bostridge brings more than just a beautiful tone and a subtle musical phrasing to these songs. In contrast with the pure vowel sounds of most continental languages, as Ian says in his sleeve-notes, the complex vowels ... Read More: Rating: - Perfectly EnjoyableI already liked Ian Bostridge, but I thought "English songs" would be rather light and without substance. But I have fallen in love with this CD and never tire of it! I was already an admirer of Vaughan Williams, Britten, Finzi, Warlock and Delius, and I'm glad for this introduction to other composers as well. Also, much beautiful poetry is chosen, from Shakespeare, Yeats, Rossetti, Keats, and others, and each is treated with careful consideration by the composer, *partnering* music with poetry rather than simply enhancing or overshadowing the lyric. Bostridge seems to have the perfect voice for this music, light and charming when appropriate, heart-breaking at other times, always an engaging storyteller. He obviously understands intimately ... Read More: Rating: - An outstanding and entertaining collectionIan Bostridge's voice is used to good effect covering this range of songs in English. Fans of his leider works will be thoroughly delighted with the emotion and intonation apparent in these songs. The 'plough song' and 'Linden lea' evoke a pastoral past with such conviction that you'll swear that you can smell the countryside too! Julius Drake plays with his customary precision raising his role above that of 'accompaniment' without ever being intrusive to the words of the songs. If you're not a fan of Bostridge, you will be after this. Rating: - A excellent collection of British and Irish songsThis is a beautiful CD. The songs are excellent throughout. The understanding between Bostridge and Drake is evident. I especially liked the Finzi songs, but was intrigued to hear "The death of Queen Jane", a traditional folk song about Henry VIII and Jane Seymour which was rediscovered in the USA. A very good CD and one that I will return to often. |
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