Ian Bostridge; “DICHTERLIEBE“; op. 48; (Drake ’98)Robert Schumann

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================== Ian Bostridge--tenor Julius Drake--piano 1998 ============ “His first solo-featured recording was for Hyperion Records, a Britten song recital, The Red Cockatoo with Graham Johnson. His subsequent recording of Die schöne Müllerin in Hyperion’s Franz Schubert Edition won the Gramophone’s Solo Vocal Award for 1996. He won the prize again in 1998 for a recording of Robert Schumann Lieder with his regular collaborator, the pianist Julius Drake and again in 2003 for Schumann’s Myrthen and duets with Dorothea Röschmann and Graham Johnson, as part of the Hyperion Schumann edition. An EMI Classics exclusive artist since 1996, he is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and 3-time winner. His CDs have won all of the major record prizes including Grammy, Edison, Japanese Recording Academy, Brit, South Bank Show Award, Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Choc de l’Année, Echo Klassik and Deutsche Schallplattenpreis. His recording of Schubert’s “Die Forelle“ with Julius Drake forms part of the soundtrack of the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. His album of Shakespeare Song for Warner Classics won the 2017 Grammy award and the Echo Klassik award for solo vocal. In 1997 he made a film of Schubert’s Winterreise for Channel 4 directed by David Alden;[8] he has been the subject of a South Bank Show profile documentary on ITV[9] and presented the BBC 4 film The Diary of One Who Disappeared about Czech composer Leoš Janáček.[10] He has written on music for The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Opernwelt, BBC Music Magazine, Opera Now and The Independent. In 2004, Bostridge was made CBE for his services to music. He is an Hon RAM, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, St John’s College, and Wolfson College Oxford, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St Andrews in 2003.[12] He was Humanitas Professor of Classical Music and Education at the University of Oxford, 2014–15. From October 2020 he will be a visiting professor at Munich’s Hochschule for Music and Theatre. A collection of his writings on music, A Singer’s Notebook, was published by Faber and Faber in September 2011. It was described by philosopher Michael Tanner, in BBC Music Magazine: “A consistently lively, learned, urbane and passionate book, once opened not likely to be closed until you have read it all.“[citation needed] His bestselling book Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession was published by Faber and Faber in the UK and by Knopf in the US in January 2015. It will be published in German, Finnish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Mandarin, simplified Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish editions. It won the Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction for 2015, the Prix Littéraire des Musiciens in 2018 and was named the best music book of the year in the Prix de la Critique 2017/18 (Association Professionelle de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse). It went on to win the Grand Prix France Musique des Muses in 2019. His book “Song and Self: a singer’s reflections on music and performance” will be published in 2023 by Chicago University Press in the USA, Faber and Faber in the UK, C.H Beck in Germany and Acantilado in Spain. Personal life In 1992 Bostridge married the writer and publisher Lucasta Miller,[1] and they have a son and a daughter.[2] His brother is the biographer and critic Mark Bostridge. He lists his hobbies as reading, cooking, and looking at pictures.[1]“; Wikipedia (edited)