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Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge is an opera singer and a song recitalist. He is the author of Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession and Witchcraft and Its Transformations, c. 1650–1750. (May 2020)

Ivan Turgenev; portrait by Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, 1879

When Turgenev Did the Cancan

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

by Orlando Figes

May 14, 2020 issue

Lotte Lehmann crying onstage during her farewell recital at Town Hall, New York City, 1951

Crying Out Loud

Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London Between the World Wars

by Laura Tunbridge

August 16, 2018 issue

Luca della Robbia the Elder: detail from the Cantoria (choir loft), in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy, 1431–1438

God’s Own Music

The Anglican choral tradition is one of the great successes of English cultural diffusion

O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music

by Andrew Gant

Messiah: The Composition and Afterlife of Handel’s Masterpiece

by Jonathan Keates

February 22, 2018 issue

Gustav Klimt: Schubert at the Piano, 1899; destroyed by fire in May 1945

The Magic in Schubert’s Songs

There will always be so much more at stake in song than the mere setting of words by music

Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs

by Graham Johnson

April 2, 2015 issue

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