Videos | September 07, 2010
Ian Bostridge: Three Baroque Tenors
Ian Bostridge discusses his recording of Three Baroque Tenors featuring six world premiere recordings of arias by Caldara, Conti, Gasparini, Handel, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi. John Beard, Francesco Borosini, Annibale Fabri: these three men helped to revolutionize music in the 18th century. Their voices moved the greatest composers of the time to increasingly write for tenors, a move from the Castrati, which had
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