Schedule? What schedule? I do apologise for the lack of posts recently – I’ve been sick and then uninspired. I think for the time being, I’m going to abandon my sequence of posts on Monday and Friday and just post…
Tag: ian bostridge
Monday Music: Erlkönig (Schubert)
It’s a Monday morning in Autumn, and time for a bit of Sturm und Drang. (and this is where I confess that I just had to look up ‘Drang’, which turns out to mean stress. There you go. We all…
Monday Music: Scherza Infida (G.F. Handel)
I think my love for both Handel and Ian Bostridge are pretty well established now, and if you spend much time on this blog, you will probably find yourself getting to know them rather well. Part of me feels that…
Advent Calendar Day 23: In The Bleak Mid-Winter (Holst)
This carol is purely wishful thinking on my part. The forecast for today is for 39°C – appallingly hot for December – and a bit of frosty wind feels as though it would be very welcome just now. Especially as…
Advent Calendar Day 3: Comfort Ye & Every Valley (Handel)
Another piece from our yearly Advent Service, and also from Handel’s Messiah. You’d think I’d be tired of it by now, but some things never grow old…
Come Away Death (Roger Quilter)
I’ve only discovered Quilter recently, mostly because there was a book of his art song available at the Allans sale a few weeks ago and I was seduced by the prospect of singing Shakespeare’s poetry. My friendly salesperson, who is…
Advent Calendar Day 16 – In the Bleak Midwinter (Darke *and* Holst)
Another slightly better-known carol, this one with lyrics by Christina Rosetti, who certainly never intended for it to be sung, since it scans differently in every verse. I love this carol for the words, which I find very evocative –…
Advent Calendar Day 15 – Ev’ry Valley (Handel)
You knew I’d sneak some Ian Bostridge in here somewhere, right? And what could be better than a little more Messiah? The text of this piece is read at every Advent Carol service I’ve been to – it’s another prepare…