Stories from England Oxalys & Ian Bostridge

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ welcomes British tenor Ian Bostridge. He is known worldwide as one of the most fascinating singers of our time. According to the London Evening Standard, he is a storyteller and a singing actor par excellence. This PhD historian who studied at Cambridge and Oxford has an enormous range of emotional expression. Together with the Belgian chamber music ensemble Oxalys, Bostridge makes a journey through the lovely landscapes of his native England with English music from the belle époque of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock and Gustav Holst.

Stories from England Oxalys & Ian Bostridge

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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Piet Heinkade 1

1019 BR Amsterdam

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English Romanticism of the Belle Epoque

In the years around 1900, skirts rustled at the balls in Europe and Mata Hari danced in the salons in Paris which Oscar Wilde and Claude Debussy also frequented. In the music of conservative England, the friendly atmosphere of rural tranquility set the tone.

Ian Bostridge has the ideal golden serrated timbre for the British romanticism of Gustav Holt and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He also sings songs by the little-known Peter Warlock, who was inspired by music from the time of Queen Elizabeth I, but also embraced Debussy's harmonies.