A singer's notebook
By: Ian Bostridge
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780571252459
Subjects: Tenors (Singers); History and criticism; Music; Diaries
Notes: Includes index.

"Consisting of short essays and reviews written since 1997, some in diary form, [the book] ranges widely over issues serious (music and transcendence) and not so serious ... while inevitably discussing many of the composers with whom Bostridge has become identified, such as Britten, Henze, Janacek, Schubert, Weill and Wolf"--Book jacket flap.