A Singer's Notebook

Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author), Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author)

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Faber & Faber
27 May 2015

Music; Memoirs

Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer's Notebook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical music through the eyes of someone whose career as a singer has followed a unique trajectory. Consisting of short essays and reviews written since 1997, some in diary form, it ranges widely over issues serious (music and transcendence) and not so serious (the singer's battles with phlegm), while inevitably discussing many of the composers with whom Bostridge has become identified, such as Benjamin Britten, Henze, Janacek, Weill, Wolf, and Schubert, composer of the Winterreise with which Bostridge has become so associated.

Ultimately it returns to the theme of his earlier work on seventeenth century witchcraft - what place can there be for the ineffable in a world defined by an iron cage of rationality?

Including a foreword by the eminent sociologist, Richard Sennett, A Singer's Notebook is an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of one of Britain's best loved musicians.

By: Dr Ian Bostridge CBE (Author), Dr Ian Bostridge, CBE (Author)
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 16mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 200mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780571252466
ISBN 10: 057125246X
Publication Date: 27 May 2015
Audience: General/trade , Children/juvenile , ELT Advanced , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active