ALBUMBeethoven: Songs & FolksongsIan Bostridge & Antonio Pappano
ALBUMBerlioz: Les nuits d'été – Ravel: Shéhérazade – Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire (After Debussy's L. 64)Ian Bostridge, Seattle Symphony & Ludovic Morlot
ALBUMRequiem - The Pity of WarAntonio Pappano & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMHandel: Ode for St Cecilia's DayCarolyn Sampson, Dunedin Consort, Ian Bostridge, John Butt & Polish Radio Choir
ALBUMSchubert 4 - Wigmore Hall LiveIan Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMSchubert, Vol. 3 (Wigmore Hall Live)Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMSongs from Our AncestorsIan Bostridge & Xuefei Yang
ALBUMShakespeare SongsAntonio Pappano & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMBrahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 6Ian Bostridge & Graham Johnson
ALBUMSchubert 2 - Wigmore Hall LiveIan Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMSchubert - Wigmore Hall LiveIan Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMBritten: SongsIan Bostridge & Antonio Pappano
ALBUMBritten: The Rape of LucretiaOliver Knussen, Ian Bostridge, Peter Coleman-Wright, Christopher Purves, Susan Gritton, Hilary Summers, Angelika Kirchschlager, Benjamin Russell, Claire Booth & Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble
ALBUMBritten: War RequiemLondon Symphony Orchestra, Simon Keenlyside, Gianandrea Noseda, Ian Bostridge, London Symphony Chorus, Sabina Cvilak & Choir of Eltham College
ALBUMNÖ Tonkünstler Live - Mendelssohn Symphonie Nr. 2 "Lobgesang"Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Christiane Oelze, Ian Bostridge, Simona Šaturová & Tonkünstler-Orchester
ALBUMThe Three Baroque TenorsIan Bostridge
ALBUMThe Three Baroque Tenors [digital exclusive] (digital exclusive)Ian Bostridge
ALBUMBritten: Billy BuddDaniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Nathan Gunn, Jonathan Lemalu, London Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Rose & Gidon Saks
ALBUMGreat HandelIan Bostridge
ALBUMGreat HandelIan Bostridge
ALBUMSchubert: Lieder & Piano Sonata, D. 958Ian Bostridge & Leif Ove Andsnes
ALBUMSchubert: Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, D.960Ian Bostridge & Leif Ove Andsnes
ALBUMBritten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings - Les Illuminations - NocturneIan Bostridge, Sir Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMSchubert: Die schöne MüllerinIan Bostridge & Mitsuko Uchida
ALBUMMonteverdi: L'Orfeo, SV 318Natalie Dessay, Ian Bostridge, Le Concert d'Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm
ALBUMSchubert : Sonata in D Op.53, D850/LiederLeif Ove Andsnes & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMSchumann: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7Dorothea Röschmann, Ian Bostridge & Graham Johnson
ALBUMBritten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers & Mahler Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMJanácek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared & 15 Moravian Folksongs for PianoIan Bostridge & Thomas Adès
ALBUMSchubert: LiederJulius Drake & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMHenze: SongsJulius Drake & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMBach: Cantatas & AriasFabio Biondi, Europa Galante & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMHandel: Israel in EgyptThe Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Ian Bostridge, Michael Chance, Sir Stephen Cleobury, Stephen Varcoe & Susan Gritton
ALBUMSchubert: WinterreiseIan Bostridge & Leif Ove Andsnes
ALBUMThe English SongbookIan Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMStravinsky: The Rake's ProgressLondon Symphony Orchestra, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bryn Terfel, John Eliot Gardiner & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMVaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6/In the Fen Country/On Wenlock EdgeBernard Haitink, Ian Bostridge & London Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMSchumann: Liederkreis & Dichterliebe etcIan Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMSchubert: LiederJulius Drake & Ian Bostridge
ALBUMFinzi: Clarinet Concerto; Dies Natalis; Nocturne; RomanceSir Neville Marriner, Ian Bostridge, Andrew Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
ALBUMOthmar Schoeck: Lieder - Complete Edition, Vol. 11Lynne Dawson, Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
ALBUMSchubert: Hyperion Schubert Edition 25 - Die schöne MüllerinIan Bostridge & Graham Johnson
ALBUMStravinsky: Pulcinells - Danses ConcertantesFiona Janes (Soprano), Henry Herford (Baritone), Ian Bostridge & Igor Stravinsky
ALBUMBritten: The Red Cockatoo & Other SongsIan Bostridge & Graham Johnson
One of the country’s most strikingly individual tenors, Ian Bostridge combines his remarkable palette of vocal colour with a sharp and restless intelligence. His performances are often provocatively unconventional, but at their best—notably in songs by Schubert, Wolf and Britten—are revelatory and compelling due to his detailed response to the sung texts. Born in London in 1964, Bostridge studied history, receiving his doctorate from Oxford in 1990. He taught history and political theory there before pursuing a career as a singer, making his Wigmore Hall debut in 1993, followed by his Aldeburgh Festival debut a year later. While his repertoire includes Bach, Handel and a good deal of French song, Bostridge is particularly associated with music by the Aldeburgh Festival’s founder, Benjamin Britten, and, more broadly, with repertoire associated with Britten’s lifelong partner and colleague, the tenor Peter Pears. While Bostridge’s willowy physique precludes his undertaking physically imposing roles such as Peter Grimes, he has successfully taken on many of Pears’ other operatic roles and repertoire. He also has the advantage over Pears that his voice has a wider compass, and, since the turn of the century, has gained in lyrical richness.
Hometown
London, England
Genre
Classical
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