We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.
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Guest:
Ian Bostridge (https://www.askonasholt.com/artists/ian-bostridge/)
Show notes:
Lieder (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lied)
Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/sep/09/ian-bostridge-opera-life-music)
Ravel: Chansons madécasses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chansons_madécasses)
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession (https://amzn.to/2wKT1p2)
Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color (https://amzn.to/2VdwWZH)
Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEapI4dEBQ)
Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9r7pW_PBT4)
Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750 (https://amzn.to/2Ve5j2M)
Our next tracks:
Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuvs2w7ges)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PQtpc_5QHI)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters (https://amzn.to/3evzr1h)
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Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.