Internationally-acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge is celebrated throughout the world for his penetrating interpretations of English song, German lieder, Bach cantatas, and opera, performing with outstanding partners in the finest halls. His book, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, was awarded top prizes and translated into twelve languages.
He has held artistic residencies at Vienna, Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, London Barbican and Wigmore Hall, Hamburg, and most recently, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hailed by CNN as “one of the top ensembles of today”, Sejong Soloists is a first-class chamber orchestra. Renowned for its exceptional dynamic style with ranges of quartet-like precision to full orchestra resonance, Sejong is highly praised for its diverse performances, documentaries, television broadcasts, and recordings.

Benjamin Britten composed his masterpiece “Les Illuminations” Op. 18 in 1939 to poetic texts of the visionary French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). The ambiguity of language and authentic images like ecstasy, obscurity, and anguish are expressed through chordal conflict, modified rhythms, and chromatic scales: the string accompaniment provides an important component of this complex and dramatic work. Ian Bostridge has performed this work with the London Symphony (Proms), the Concertgebouw, and the Berlin Philharmonic.

［PROGRAM］

Schubert Rondo for Violin and Strings in A Major, D. 438
Stephen Kim, violin

Britten Les Illuminations, Op. 18
Ian Bostridge, tenor

Walton Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V
I. Passacaglia: Death of Falstaff
II. Touch Her Soft Lips and Part

Purcell ‘Music for a While’ from Oedipus, Z. 583
‘If Music Be the Food of Love’, Z. 379

Purcell(Arr.Britten) Evening Hymn, Z. 193

Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat major, Op. 133

［Profile］

* IAN BOSTRIDGE, Tenor

Ian Bostridge＇s international recital career takes him to the foremost concert halls of Europe, South East Asia and North America. In opera, he has performed Tamino (Mozart Die Zauberflote), Jupiter (Handel Semele) and Aschenbach (Britten Death in Venice) at English National Opera, Quint (Britten The Turn of the Screw), Don Ottavio (Mozart Don Giovanni) and Caliban (Ades The Tempest) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, title role Jephtha for Opera de Paris, Don Ottavio at the Wiener Staatsoper, Tom Rakewell (Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress) at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Quint at Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Highlights of the 2019/20 season include a tour of the USA with Brad Mehldau; performances of Schubert’s Winterreise at the Cartagena Music Festival in Colombia; a concert tour with Lucerne Festival Strings through Slovenia and Italy; Evangelist Matthew Passion in Torino and Bajazet in Handel’s Tamerlano with the Moscow State Philharmonic.

His many recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for
fifteen Grammys. He was awarded a CBE in the 2004 New Year＇s Honours. In 2016, he was awarded the The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction writing for his latest book, Schubert＇s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession.

* SEJONG SOLOISTS

Hailed by CNN as “one of the top ensembles of today”, Sejong Soloists has established itself to be a first-class chamber orchestra renowned for its exceptional dynamic style with ranges of quartet-like precision to full orchestra resonance. The premier ensemble has given over 500 concerts in more than 120 cities throughout the world, with renowned soloists, and is highly praised for its performances, documentaries, television broadcasts, and recordings.