{"product_id":"song-and-self-9780571378999","title":"Song and Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccustomed to being centre stage, international award-winning singer Ian Bostridge, like so many performers, spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take part in live music. It led him to question an identity previously defined by communicating directly with audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis enforced silence allowed Bostridge the opportunity to explore the backstories of some of the many works that he has performed  works such as Claudio Monteverdi's seventeenth-century masterpiece \u003ci\u003eIl combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda \u003c\/i\u003eand Schumann's ever popular song cycle \u003ci\u003eFrauenliebe und Leben.\u003c\/i\u003e The complex world of a single song by Ravel from the \u003ci\u003eChansons madécasses\u003c\/i\u003e has always haunted and unnerved Bostridge, while his immersion in Benjamin Britten's confrontations with death, in life and art, have given him much food for thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on his Berlin Family Lectures, delivered at the University of Chicago in the Spring of 2020, Bostridge guides us on a fascinating journey beneath t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSchubert's Winter Journey:\u003c\/i\u003e'The songs are discussed in a series of insightful and gracefully written chapters, each drawing on a vast range of learning in cultural and social history, musicology and psychoanalysis.' - Ivan Hewett,\u003ci\u003e Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e A Singer's Notebook: '\u003c\/i\u003eThis is a consistently lively, learned, urbane and passionate book, once opened not likely to be closed until you have read it all.' -\u003ci\u003eBBC Music Magazine Music Books Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865131102551,"sku":"9780571378999","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571378999.jpg?v=1722273681","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/song-and-self-9780571378999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}