Voices are an acquired taste. For many, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the voice of German song of later years. For others, he is a Mack truck flattening helpless Lieder in his path. For many, Maria Callas is the voice of Italian opera in the twentieth century. For others, she is a hysterical and histrionic kook. And so it is with Ian Bostridge. For some, his clear, pure voice and his deeply intelligent interpretations make him the greatest English tenor of his generation. For others, he is an affected and annoying artiste ...
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Voices are an acquired taste. For many, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is the voice of German song of later years. For others, he is a Mack truck flattening helpless Lieder in his path. For many, Maria Callas is the voice of Italian opera in the twentieth century. For others, she is a hysterical and histrionic kook. And so it is with Ian Bostridge. For some, his clear, pure voice and his deeply intelligent interpretations make him the greatest English tenor of his generation. For others, he is an affected and annoying artiste with greater ambitions than talent. For some, Bostridge's first Schubert recital on EMI recorded in 1998 was as involving and as moving a recital as has been released in years. For others, he was just too cute, too coy, and too corny. For those who loved Bostridge's first Schubert recital, his second is more of the same: wonderfully sung, artfully interpreted examples of art-song singing of the highest order. For the others, its just another nail in his coffin. And for those others to...
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