Share

Report Abuse

Next Blog»

Create Blog

Sign In

ENTARTETE MUSIK BY GAVIN PLUM LEY

SA TURD A Y , 10 SE PTE M BE R 2011

FA CE BOOK

A Singer’s Notebook

You can become a fan of this blog on Facebook. Come and join the other degenerates by clicking here.

TW ITTE R

Ian Bostridge has always been something of an acquired taste. His ‘English’ sound, peculiar platform manner and limited operatic roles have entranced and exasperated in equal measure. Yet his perspicacious delivery of text has always compensated for any vocal

You can now follow on Twitter. Come and tweet with Die Vögel by clicking here.

caprices. It’s no surprise, then, that he flourishes equally when writing his own words. A Singer’s Notebook is a stimulating compendium of Bostridge’s speeches, columns, reviews and essays, written alongside his dazzling career. Historical context and social background provide a thematic core to

SUBSCRIBE TO

Posts Comments

the collection. And having always wanted to write a diary (and regularly failing to do so), the two impulses unite in Bostridge’s column for Standpoint; it’s the best of the volume. His historical

FOL L OW E RS

skills find voice in opinion pieces and musicological ponderings, rubbing against candid and often self-critical reflections on his profession.

W HO W RITE S THIS BL OG?

These thoughts occasionally verge into the ‘trendy’ corners of modern performance. Having witnessed Bostridge’s bizarre turn in Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera, it is no surprise that his writing about ‘Mack the Knife’ – as well as on Noel Coward, Cole Porter and Bob Dylan – feels queasy. But when exploring his genuine niches – magic in music and the Austro-Germanic Lieder tradition – Bostridge flies, writing with stylistic felicity and cultural savvy. His Schubert chapters are particularly adept. If he is too critical of others’ approaches to this most subjective of composers, he remains aware of the wider ramifications. Citing Freud, Elfriede Jelinek and the repressive Viennese culture in which Schubert thrived and died, everything comes back to context. It’s a delight to join the sociological and musicological dots. Some readers will long for a more satisfying overall structure to the book, while others may wish for greater tranches of self-analysis. But the majority will be hugely satisfied by the writing of one of the most

Entartete Musik is a day-to-day cultural and travel journal by Gavin Plumley. For more information on Gavin's work click here.

balanced and cerebral artists of our time. Click here to order a copy. This review appeared in the 10 September issue of Classical Music magazine. Click here for further information about Classical Music. P O S T ED B Y G A V I N P LUM LEY A T 10. 9. 11 LA B ELS : B O O K S , B O S T R I DG E

0 COM M EN TS : Post a Comment LI NKS TO THI S P OST nettipäiväkirja4: Kittilä 4.8.2011 nettipäiväkirja4: Chimpanzee feeds tiger cub - video nettipäiväkirja4: Griechenland Pleite, kein wunder wenn an Tode ... nettipäiväkirja4: Russia Wants a Finger on Europe's Nuclear Shield nettipäiväkirja4: FSB Orders Ulyanovsk ISP to Block LiveJournal nettipäiväkirja4: Deutsches Schiff voller Waffen für Gaza nettipäiväkirja4: I AM AN ALGERIAN WOMAN, I AM ANTIISLAM……. nettipäiväkirja4: Russia No Longer to Provide Free Treatment for ... nettipäiväkirja4: Katso televisiota suoraan tietokoneen ruudulta ... nettipäiväkirja4: Video: Chinese documentary on Israel, Part 1 of

CURRE NT L ISTE NING

12 Not For Fun Only: MacWorld 2011 Not For Fun Only: Orphée Sneak Preview Not For Fun Only: SFS: Hélène Grimaud plays Schumann Not For Fun Only: Perfect Soup nettipäiväkirja4: Der Triumph des „System Putin“ nettipäiväkirja4: 100 Tonnen Keltengeschichte nettipäiväkirja4: In Russia, freedom of speech belongs to the state

CURRE NT RE A D ING

nettipäiväkirja4: Bernanke on CBS's '60 Minutes' Not For Fun Only: The Witch of Endor nettipäiväkirja4: EU-Staaten wollen den Euro besser schützen nettipäiväkirja4: Bundespräsident Christian Wulff nettipäiväkirja4: The Roma's Struggle to Find a Home nettipäiväkirja4: The challenges of being a waitress at Munich's ... Not For Fun Only: Two Gentlemen of Verona nettipäiväkirja4: Zanzibar Muslims, Officials Stop Church Building ... nettipäiväkirja4: Kanada hält russische Bomber auf nettipäiväkirja4: Kampf im Klassenzimmer – Deutsche Schüler in der ... nettipäiväkirja4: BBC radiokanavat Not For Fun Only: Festival Opera: Madame Butterfly Not For Fun Only: SFO: Walküre (round 2) nettipäiväkirja4: Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem? Not For Fun Only: SFO: Faust nettipäiväkirja4: Eläkeläisten rokkikonsertti Not For Fun Only: Hausmann Quartet at the Rex nettipäiväkirja4: Meet Marty Cooper - the inventor of the mobile phone Kammermusikkammer: Franz Schubert: Lieder nach Gedichten von ... Kammermusikkammer: Quator Calvet und Quator Pro Arte: Historische ... Not For Fun Only: Walt Disney Family Museum Kammermusikkammer: Georges Onslow (1784-1853): Sextett und Septett Kammermusikkammer: Der 100ste Post mit 100-jährigen Aufnahmen ... Not For Fun Only: Thomas Viloteau at the Rex Not For Fun Only: The Lady from Shanghai Kammermusikkammer: Beethoven: Klavierquartette WoO 36 ... Kammermusikkammer: Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Werke für Violoncello ... Kammermusikkammer: 1970: Claudio Arrau spielt Franz Liszt nettipäiväkirja4: Finland feds terrified of citizen access to Internet

PRE V IOUS POND E RINGS

Not For Fun Only: Daniel Pink in Conversation nettipäiväkirja4: Der Sieger heißt Moskau nettipäiväkirja4: Tango Kammermusikkammer: Mozart: Klaviertrios Kammermusikkammer: Luigi Boccherini: Streichsextette op. 23 Kammermusikkammer: Joseph Haydn: Russische Quartette, Opus 33 ... Kammermusikkammer: Alfred Cortot spielt Frédéric Chopins Walzer Not For Fun Only: Wozzeck Sneak Preview nettipäiväkirja4: Suomen Kuvalehden journalistipalkinto Teema ... Kammermusikkammer: J. S. Bach: Triosonaten (BWV 1036 bis 1039) Kammermusikkammer: Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729): Konzerte ... Not For Fun Only: BluePrint: L'Histoire du Soldat Kammermusikkammer: Henry Purcell: Dido und Äneas (The Scholars ... nettipäiväkirja4: Kettu Not For Fun Only: PCOC 2009 Kammermusikkammer: Die Welt von Clara Haskil (1895-1960) Kammermusikkammer: Heinrich Schütz: Italienische Madrigale ("Il ... Kammermusikkammer: Franz Schubert: Werke für Violine und Klavier Not For Fun Only: Kemble Scott at Books Inc. nettipäiväkirja4: Obama and the Perfect Political Storm nettipäiväkirja4: Arctic Sea Not For Fun Only: Alonzo King LINES Educational Programs nettipäiväkirja4: Medminder nettipäiväkirja4: Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer nettipäiväkirja4: Pakistan: Christen bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt Not For Fun Only: SFJFF: The Yes Men Fix the World nettipäiväkirja4: Suomi ja NATO Not For Fun Only: Summer Desserts Not For Fun Only: SFSFF: The Gaucho Not For Fun Only: Adrian Tomine & Seth nettipäiväkirja4: Muslimiterroristit leikkasivat pään irti Edwin ... Not For Fun Only: Cooper-Hewitt Museum Not For Fun Only: Cypress String Quartet: Behind the Music Not For Fun Only: Kentridge preview at SF MOMA

▼ 2011 (318) ▼ September (25) The Second Fritzl? Good things come in threes Why I won't be watching Downton Abbey Bête noire What to watch... Rhapsodic Schoenberg LPO bans boycott players Kipferl Wine Tasting Meat rather than mortality Il twittico - the Trio Reunited The Entartete Proms Top 10 A Singer’s Notebook Il twittico - Introducing Gianni Schicchi Il twittico - Introducing Suor Angelica Il twittico - Introducing Il tabarro Il twittico Prom 69 - Wagner, Rihm, Mahler Prom 68 - Braunfels, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky Put your hands up... This is Entertainment Prom 63 - Liszt, Mahler A post-postscript Budapest 1889 A postscript Prom 62 - Webern, Bruch, Albéniz, Rimsky-Korsakov ► August (31) ► July (39)

Not For Fun Only: Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays Gubaidulina

► June (34)

Kammermusikkammer: Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzoni et Sonate

► May (39)

(London ... Kammermusikkammer: Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium - Salve intemerata Not For Fun Only: Alexander String Quartet

► April (43) ► March (32) ► February (35)

Kammermusikkammer: Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame ... Kammermusikkammer: Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445) und seine ...

► January (40) ► 2010 (410) ► 2009 (355)

Not For Fun Only: Heidi Melton at Hotel Rex

► 2008 (174)

Kammermusikkammer: Musikalische Scherze von Mozart, Haydn

► 2007 (118)

... Not For Fun Only: T.I.C. (trenchcoat in common) Kammermusikkammer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singt Lieder nach ... Kammermusikkammer: Giacinto Scelsi: Streichquartette,

E L SE W HE RE ON THE W E B

All you need to know about Janacek Austrian Treasures

Streichtrio ... Not For Fun Only: Derek Jarman's Edward II

Boulezian

Kammermusikkammer: Franz Schmidt (1874-1939):

Brendan G Carroll's YouTube page

Klavierquintette für ...

Brno Now

Not For Fun Only: Faust HD Broadcast Kammermusikkammer: J. S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (Gustav ... Not For Fun Only: Short Reads About Music

Classical Iconoclast Clefpalette David Nice

nettipäiväkirja4: Joulukaktuksen tarina Kammermusikkammer: Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht op 4 (für ... Kammermusikkammer: Antonin Dvorak: Klavierquinette (Juilliard ... Not For Fun Only: Free Chamber Music Marathon on Sunday

Decayetude For the Love of Tonal Functional Harmony Gavin Plumley Glyndebourne Guy Dammann

Create a Link Newer Post

Henrietta Bredin Home

Older Post

In Search of Mahler Intermezzo

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

James Kessler Jessica Duchen Last night I drank... Leben im XXI. Jahrhundert Likely Impossibilities Mahler Blog Matthew Gallaway Merisi's Virtual Viennese Postcards Not for Fun Only On an Overgrown Path Orel Foundation Petroc Trelawny Royal Opera House Royal Opera House Blog Schubert B flat Sonata Seated Ovation Tate Gallery Ten Rules of Opera Etiquette The Best of Vienna

The Great Within The Guardian The Neue Gallerie - New York The Rest is Noise The View from Here Tom Service Unpredictable Inevitability Unquiet Thoughts Vertigo: Collecting & Reading W.G. Sebald Vienna for Dummies Vienna Review Wien Museum Will's DesignerBlog

OBSE SSIONS

Aciman (13) Adams (3) Ades (2) Adorno (3) 9/11 (1) Abbado (2) ACF London (1)

Advent (1) Aix (1) Alan Gilber t (1) Albéniz (1) Allegr i

America (4) Amster dam (1)

(1)

Amusement (3) Architecture (16)

(43) Arts and Crafts Austria (43) Autumn

Art

(4) Auden (7) (5) Bach (11)

Baillie Scott (2) Ballet (24) Bamberg (5) Barbican (2) Barenboim (9) Bartok (8)

BBC Proms (47) Beethoven (25) Being a camp old bird (61) Bellini (1) Berg (30) Berlin (70) Ber liner Baudelair e (1) Bauhaus (2) BBC (2)

Philhar moniker (1) Ber lioz (1) Ber nhar d (1)

Bernstein (3) Beyoncé (2) Biedermeier (4) Billie Holiday (1) Bir mingham (1) Blog (27) Bloomsbury (3) Bogar de (1) Books (22) Bostr idge (1)

Brahms (11) Braunfels (4)

BRB (1) Brian (3)

Britten (39)

Brno (7)

Broadway (3) Br uch (1) Bruckner (4) Bruegel (2) Brussels (4) Budapest (2) Byrd (2) Byr on (1) Cage (1) Cambridge (2) Casals (1)

CDs (94)

Cello (1) Chailly (2)

Char les Jencks (1) Chekhov (2) Chile (1)

Chopin (2) Christmas (6) Chur chill (1) Cilea (2) Clar inet (1) Clean Bandit (2) Coffee (3) Congo (1)

Cooking (11)

Cotman (1) Critics

(3) Cuba (1) Czech (6) d'Alber t (1) Dance (3) Danube (1) de Waal (3) Debussy (5) Degas (1) Design (1) Dessay (1) Diaghilev (4)

Doderer

(2) Donauinsel (1)

Drink

(3)

Dudamel (14)

Dukas (1) DV D (1) Dvořák (6)

Dylan Thomas (5) Easter (1) Edinbur gh (1) Edward Thomas (2)

Edmund White (1)

Elgar (11)

Electr onic Music (1)

Eliasson (1)

Eliot (3) Engelhart (2) England (3) ENO (5) Ensor (1) Entar tete Kunst (1) Entartete

Musik (26) Europe (3) (1)

Film (89)

Eötvös (1) Ešenvalds

Finzi (1) Florence (2)

For bes (1) Forster (7) Fr anck (1) Frankfurt

(3) Freud (13) Fr ieder ich (1) Furniture (2) Gar dner (1) Garsington (3) Gauguin (1)

(56)

Gay

Gergiev (2) Germany (12) Gerstl

(2) Ger tler (1) Gill (2) Ginsberg (4) Glee (1)

Glyndebourne (11)

Glièr e (1) Gluck (1)

Goethe (6) Golijov (1) Gor mley (1) GQ (1) Gr ainger (1) Grieg (2) Gr opius (1) Guest (1) Gál (1) Górecki (3) Haas (2) Haitink (2)

Haneke (3) Har dy (1) Har t Cr ane (1) Har tmann (1) Haydn (1) Heaton Cooper (1) Hellmesber ger (1) Helsinki (1) Hepwor th (1) Her mann Czech (1)

Herrmann (2) Hindemith (3) Hoffmann

(9) Hollinghurst (3) Holocaust (14) Hopkins (1) Horta (2) Hor váth (1) Howells (5) Hugo

Humperdinck (2) Hussey (1)

(1)

iltwittico (5) Isherwood (14) Israel (5)

Italy (15)

Jan Mor r is (1)

Janáček (52)

Jazz (3) Jelinek (4) Johann Strauss (5) John Williams (1) John

Wilson (2) Joni

Mitchell (1) Jonke (1) Joyce (1) Jung (1) Keats (1) Keenlyside (1) Ker sting (1) Kiefer (1) Kipfer l (1) Kipling

(1)

Klimt

Korngold (59)

(10)

Kolig

Kosma (1)

(2)

Kr aus (1)

Langgaar d (1) Langlais (1) Lanner (2) Leipzig

(5) Lieder

(4) Lienz (1) Liszt (10)

Literature (42)

Littell (3) Liverpool

(6) Loewe (1) London (22) Longbor ough (1) Loos (7) Los Angeles (2) LPO (1) LRB (1) LSO

(2)

Lucer ne

(1)

M ackerras

(3)

M acM illan (3) M adrid (4) Magr itte (1)

Mahler (170)

Makar t (1) M ann

(5) M artha Argerich (3) M artinů (4) Mar x (1) M assenet (3) Matisse (1) M endelssohn

(6)

Messer schmidt

(1)

Messiaen

(1)

M etzmacher (3) Moll (1) Montand (1) Moor e (1)

Mozart (21) M uhly (4)

(1)

Music (87) Musical (22)

Muir (1) Munich Már ai (1)

Neue Galerie (2) Neue Sachlichkeit (3)

New York (10)

Nietzsche (1) Nor r ington (1)

Off the Wall Opera (63) Opera

Nostalgia (4) O'Hagan (1)

(30)

Olbrich (2)

North (2) Oper etta (1) Ophüls (1) Or chestr a

(1) Organ (5) Or pheus (1) Otto Wagner (4)

Oxford (2) Palestine (1) Paris (18) Par r y (1) Paul Lewis (2) Pfitzner (1) Philipp Blom

(2) Photography (2) Piano (22) Picasso (2) Piper (3) Poetry (16) Poland (1) Poulenc (2) Prague (3) Prokofiev (2)

Proust (11) Puccini (18) Purcell (2) Py (1) Pär t (1) Rachmaninov (4) Railway (16) Raphael (2) Rattle (13) Ravel (13) Reich (1) Respighi (1) Rihm (2) Rilke (1) RimskyKor sakov (1) Rodger s and Hammer stein (1)

Rome (8)

Rossetti (1) Rossini (3) Roth (2)

Rott (2) Royal Opera House (19) Rufinatscha (1) Rufus Wainwright (3) Russia

(7) Räder scheidt (1) Sackville-West (1) SaintSaëns (1) Salzburg (4) Salzkammer gut (1)

Francisco (8) Sandstr öm

(1)

Schnitzler

(1)

Sander Sassoon

(1)

Sander s

Schiele

(1)

Schoenberg (20) Schubert

Schreker

San (1)

(7)

(29) (75)

Schulhoff (4) Schumann (8) Sebald (9) Shakespeare

(3)

Shostakovich

(3)

Sibelius (3) Sidney (1) Sinopoli (1) Smetana (1) Snow (1) Sondheim (1) Sor olla (1) Spain (1)

Spring (12) (4)

Stanfor d (1) Stanley Spencer

Strauss (43) Stravinsky (20)

Str udlhofgasse (1) Suffolk (1) Sullivan

(2)

Suther land (1) Swayne (1) Szymanowski (7) Talbot (1) Tallis (1)

Tchaikovsky (20)

Tennessee Williams (1) Terence Davies (4) Ter ezín (1) TFH (1)

Theatre (21) Ticciati

(2) Tippett (1) Toch (2) Tokyo (1) Tolstoy (1) Tour nemir e (1) Tram (4) Turnage (4) Tur ner (1)

TV (12)

Twitter (1) Twombly (1) Ullmann

(2) Under gr ound (1) UNESCO (1) Varèse (2) Vaughan Williams (4) Venice (3) Verdi (4) Verismo (2) V ictor ia (1)

(203)

Vienna

Viola (2) von Tr ier (1) Wagner

(25) Wales (7)

Walter

(1)

Walton

(1)

Warlock (2) Watkins (1) Weber (1) Webern (6) Weill (4) Weingar tner (1) Weir (1) Wellesz (2) Whitacr e (1) Widmann (1) Wigmore Hall (6) Wilde

(2) William

M orris (3) Wine (5) Winter Journey

(25) Wolf (3) Wood (1) Woolf (5) Zemlinsky (12) Zweig (4)

Any third party copyrighted material on this blog is included as and deemed to be "fair use", for the

purpose of promotion, review or critical analysis; any material will be removed immediately at the request of copyright owner(s).

KEI N' M US I K I S T JA NI CH T A UF ER DEN, DI E UNS R ER VER GL I CH EN KA NN W ER DEN.