Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Englishman Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest tenors of our day, came to music late. His career as a singer started when he was 27, but naturally he had not wasted his time prior to this: he studied history and philosophy at Oxford and Cambridge, took his doctorate in 1990, and his thesis also appeared in book form under the title Witchcraft and its Transformations, c. 1650–1750, which is considered a standard work on demonology in the period before the Enlightenment. As far as being a singer goes, it would be possible list at length his records, prizes, music partners and great concert halls he has appeared in. Simply unnecessary. Ian Bostridge is a representative of the dying breed of profoundly intellectual singers who simply must be heard. Especially when he sings Winterreise, Schubert’s final song cycle, with piano accompaniment by Thomas Adès, the most important British composer of the turn of the millennium.