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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: musical dictionary?
> I have a number of recordings of Winterreise, including Ian Bostridge's,
> and I have to say Bostridge's recording ranks pretty low. His Mullerin
> live and on CD was a revelation. But there is a quality to his voice which
> is quite exceptional and I listen to him every chance I get. Incidentally
> he is a Ph.D, probably in Music from Cambridge. If you buy a disk I
> recommend Die schone Mullerin.
I have a strange sneaking suspicion that he went into life as a professional
singer from a teaching post, not in music but in something like chemistry.
My memory is that it was something that really surprised me, not that that's
hard.
joanna
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