Siddharta escribió:
Esto escribió el propio Ian en The Guardian, donde es colaborador esporádico.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/au ... candopera1
Muchísimas gracias, Sid, nos viene muuuyyy bien este artículo!! Acto seguido me iba a poner con Henze con el que simpatizo , por el mero hecho de haber sido grandísimo amigo de la Bachmann!! y el único que la vio , quedamda, agoniando, en el hospital de Roma donde murió mientras en Chile mataban a Allende.
Henze
When Henze first heard a very young Bostridge many years ago, at Aldeburgh, he said he’d found his muse, both in terms of vocal flexibility and emotional imagination Like Schoenberg, Henze writes distortion into his score, to express Hölderlin’s essentially fractured dreams. As in the Ode, the voice isn’t about “good German” or “good English” any more than Sprechgesang is meant to be. Musical values dominate : if anything, the voice should remind us of the poet, playing and singing to the moon in his isolated tower.
Henze loves the gentle, human sound of the guitar as much as he loves the exotic wind instrument quality of Bostridge’s voice : the combination is superb. The horn part is also particularly well written, for it captures the feeling of distant hunting horns, music heard from a distance – Hölderlin’s visions were unreal and he lived in isolation. When, in the sixth section, the poet speaks of his heart, the music throbs with an eerie heartbeat. Certain words, like “Mensch” and “Schönheit” were for the poet value added with symbolism, and Henze set them carefully. At times, Bostridge brings as many as five tones into a single word at infinitely colouring it with nuance, as the poet would have felt it.
Hans Werner Henze
Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen
Three Auden Songs
Ian Bostridge: tenor
Julius Drake: piano
01 - Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen - I. Selim und der Wind
02 - II. Die Gottesanbeterin (mantis religiosa)
03 - III. Ein Sonnenaufgang
04 - IV. Cäsarion
05 - V. Fatumas Klage
06 - VI. Das Paradies
07 Three Auden Songs - I. In Memoriam L.K.A. 1950-1952
08 - II. Rimbaud
09 - III. Lay your sleeping head, my love
