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8/4/2025, 9:22:30 PM
>If you love Ian Bostridge in German lied, you can stop reading here. Go out, buy the disc, and enjoy. But I, and the handful of other people in this world not immune to this tenor’s misadventures in the genre, will continue to bear the burden of membership in the isolated minority who need painkillers to get through this disc. Bostridge doesn’t so much sing Die Schöne Müllerin as deconstruct it to conform to a Freudian subtext. In the course of his adventure into Schubert’s mind via the score of Die Schöne Müllerin, Bostridge subjects the words of the poems and the musical phrases to crooning, teasing, stretching, approximations of pitch, artificial tempo extremes, whispers, scoops, vocal tremors, quavers, and swells, and myriad other violations of musicality such as seasickness-inducing tempo extremes. As if that isn’t enough, even the combined efforts of the CIA and UN inspection teams would be hard pressed to find any example of legato. This CD is a comprehensive catalogue of pretentious mannerisms and artificiality.
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