Ian Bostridge sings Vivaldi: Farnace, RV 711, Act II: "Gelido in ogni vena"

Tenor Ian Bostridge explores the "torment of love" in Italian opera arias from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century, with conductor Antonio Florio and the ensemble Cappella Neapolitana. Discover the album: w.lnk.to/tdaLY
The modern perception of the "Italian tenor" is very much formed by the operas and performance practice of the 19th and early 20th centuries. With the arias on his album Tormento d’amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. It was at this time that the "center of gravity" of Italian opera shifted from Venice, where the genre originated, to Naples.
Video: Paul Bates
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[@bfjones1198]

Finally a harpsichord part I can play

[@GaloOrtizMusic]

😂😂😂

[@ScholaCantorumSalta]

🤭🤭🤭

[@davidmacnab5213]

🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

[@ricardoalfnso]

LOL 😆

[@marie-pascaleleonetti1555]

Moi aussi....

[@sandrascott4685]

Love the setting…Bostridge’s voice with its incredibly fluid line, depth and darkness of timbre in the lower passages and shining steely warmth at the top, in such a wonderful acoustic….Bravissimi all!

[@jpcoll2011]

This is pure art. In my favourites for as long as it stays on KZbin

[@adalyubarksy9985]

I keep returning to this performance . I cant picture anyone else singing this area . Tenor Bostridge is amazing . He puts his soul in singing Vivaldi . Mille Grazie Ian . Sehr Gut . Danke . Spasibo .

[@fulgenjbatista4640]

🕊🌟🕊 Oh Wow. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL 🙏💜🙏 💜🎵💜

[@massimosisti8178]

Complimenti Ian: una voce che incanta ed una interpretazione eccezionale!

[@user-on5lb9ew9x]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! BRAVO!!!

[@barroco05]

Good to listen to this aria during this harsh winter season.

[@martyrrt]

So lovely . Music that shakes me to my core ..

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The greatness of Vivaldi is unparalleled

[@lurdesramos5261]

Lindo, lindo, lindo! Saudações de Portugal 🇵🇹

[@xvsj-s2x]

Bravo bravo 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️

[@zk1479]

Beautiful

[@corinasonnambula]

So perfect!! Is amazing, just beautiful

[@alm9368]

Beautiful.

[@mnadezhdaglushko6255]

Wow, beautiful performance, thanks for sharing!

[@dorotabrydacka5355]

I love this interperation❤

[@AtheistAndMythology]

Beautiful!

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Molto, ma molto bello !

[@sylviel.7067]

Un pur bonheur ! Mille mercis!!

[@andreasalvatoreberzolari4428]

Splendido !!! Emozionante !

[@alexpolyak]

Amazing!

[@writeract2]

Ian's wonderful.

[@adalyubarksy9985]

Absolutely fantastic . Bravo Ian !!! I cant describe how I feel listening to this voice . Molto Gracie .

[@vivi2010ification]

Que voy más bella y que hermosa composición!!!!!

[@marie-lucepayot1123]

Emotional lyrics

[@megenberg8]

beautiful vid. musicians today knock it out of the ballpark every time - astounding. elocution excellent! profundo fully expressive w/o heaviness. good & true color in a very monotoned number. delivery agile and strong. what more could one want? love the setting too! the relaxed atmosphere of elegance is sweet! a charmer, this one! a pleasure! btw, the natural tenor voice is becoming rather a rarity these days - the sound here is a nice refreshment!

[@operafairy]

You obviously have a wrong model of natural tenor voice. Bostridge has a voice for comprimario roles. His sound is miserable and technique is so far from ideal. This flat, thin, colourless sound without any volume and deepness and with some age fading is mistakenly associated with baroque tenor voices. Check out some historical literature and try to understand WHAT is authentic baroque tenor is. This is real profanation.

[@megenberg8]

@@operafairy sometimes one can't have everything or be everything, to everyone. exquisite singing and true to the real song and text. excellent in every respect. 10.

[@operafairy]

@@megenberg8 he positioned himself as a Lieder singer first of all. That's his maximum and thanks to it he can hide his voiceless by such tricky word as interpretation. So there is no need to be everything to everyone, just sing chamber songs and don't do that things that you can't do. It's an elementary rule.

[@megenberg8]

@@operafairy sometimes it is wonderful that people sing nonetheless - and that is also abundantly beautiful. the vocalist is not enrolled in a contest here, in which anyone is to judge. for every gorgeous song, there are countless interpretations. some flawless. others close. most are simply enjoyed - and many are enjoyed by only some. i greatly enjoy this and appreciate that the man chose to sing here - this is true for many. technical perfection does not enter the issue, thankfully. indeed, it is not even germane. l love te Kanawa, but her Broadway tunes, hmm-mm. same situation w/ Jarousky, Orlinsky, and Scholl, et. al. - perfection most of the time, maybe not always. Bostridge attains perfection also, and just as often. technically and in every other way, IMO. is not a Baroque singer, but if you are looking for this number in Baroque and seek both historical & technical perfection (or very close to it!) - see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4DJaXqKlqp5hpI Valer Sabados. apparently caught on someone's iPhone! actually and in complete honesty, i enjoy both interpretations equally - that's just the way of it - music is the food of love - sing on!!!

[@operafairy]

@OrganicOrganist thank you so much for your kind support! Agreed, it has nothing to do with green, other personal or non-objective feelings, it's only about real love for Opera and baroque music in particular and some theoretical base of course. It is very dissapointed when people try to associate such voices as Bostridge' with the ideal model for baroque singing and present it as a some ''tenor's benchmark''. Because of such wrong position we have so many bad tenors in baroque repertoire. It is a real joy that someone can HEAR the truth.

[@Meinzul]

Estupendo 👌 Felicitaciones!

[@frogmouth]

Very beautiful. A real contrast with the version done by Orfeo. There is so much to learn from these interpretations

[@SylvieRousseau]

Thanks for the suggestion for next listening!

[@florengarcia9809]

Bravo

[@user-mf2jm6kg2h]

Это великолепно!!!! 😇😇😘

[@gordian99]

This is really great to listen to.

[@user-mq2ty9yv8r]

I didn't know tenor's bass was so beautiful! It's a dreamy beautiful song!!

[@Joggelschorsch]

I‘m addidcted

[@ciociosan]

Bravi!

[@sualucavontiefenkunst7253]

Einfach faszinierend, wunderschön!!! 🥰❤️❤️

[@JC-rs3fl]

maravilloso!!!! Lo divino mucho más cerca.

[@charlesmorein]

Superbe !

[@kaloarepo288]

Apparently this aria is not totally original to Vivaldi -many other Italian baroque composers used the basic framework of this tune in their compositions and Vivaldi did his own "take" on it -Gasparini was another Venetian composer who used the tune.

[@louCanitz]

This guy is a beast 👏

[@cristianbranea5034]

Lol, the harpsichord guy could not care less! In other versions of this aria the harpsichordists really go to town with torrents of arpeggios!! :))

[@Homerogac]

Cuánta belleza!

[@user-jj4ps7pr9j]

この歌手は世界一の歌手だと思います。この曲はよくナタリー・シュトゥッツマンで聴いておりましたが、最近はイアンを多く聴くようになりました。 　この先も彼が衰えず歌っていることを祈っております。　日本語が私だけなのが寂しいと同時に恥ずかしい。日本人ももっとこの歌手を評価してほしい。

[@user-ve5tw3gb5n]

日本人です！ 同じ気持ちです！！

[@ragnarkisten]

He goes quite deep, despite his light tone quality!

[@lauraabramoff8458]

Вся музыка без исключения прекрасна! Более всего понравилось пение Филиппа Жарусски! Спасибо за предоставленное счастье!!!

[@ninatuliakova6673]

Не надо сравнивать. Это естественное, свободное для нашего слуха исполнение. Прекрасный эмоционально наполненный голос тенора. Слушайте больше разного и будет вам счастье. Не зацикливайтесь на знакомом и том, о ком все говорят. В России, к сожалению, мало кого знают из тех, кто исполняет подобный сложный репертуар.

[@maryhanisch9979]

This is breathtaking! I love every second; it’s captivating. I wish I had the translation.

[@cristianbranea5034]

Like ice in every vein, I feel my blood flow, the shade of my lifeless son falls over me; I’m terrorized. And worse than that pain, I see that I was cruel to an innocent soul, to the heart of my heart.

[@juliobalaguerferrer4102]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@emilopais3748]

SUBLIME!!!

[@litoboy5]

cool

[@laurawilde4784]

This is horribly fascinating.

[@smoath]

❤

[@maratelkanidze1827]

Interesting interpretation.

[@hanneoustrup1628]

Sikke en skøn musik.

[@isseelrutiaga824]

Interpretacion exquisita y vanguardista¡¡¡ hermoso¡

[@user-ri6wd2ek6c]

❤🌹

[@jonathanfinney7821]

Curious vowel for the melismas at 2:07 and 3.37. Hooting on an an "ah". To the detriment of tuning.

[@tenor-haute-contre]

I have always liked Ian's dabble in (italian) baroque music, especially the arie composed for Francesco Borosini and Annibale Pio Fabri in his 2010 "Three Baroque Tenors" CDs. It's a pleasure to finally listen to a (big name) Tenor sing this aria which was originally composed for the Tenor Pellegrino Tomii in Vivaldi's "Siroe" (unsure if the extant manuscript for Tenor was actually a version for Antonio Barbieri, he did have a lower voice than Tomii). Despite Ian's obvious romantic phrasings and "not too italian" singing style, I still enjoy his takes of baroque pieces. However, I find this one to be maybe too placid... Farnace/Cosroe is fearing for the life of his son here, but everything, including the orchestra, is just too... still... Where is the continuo 😂😂😂 ??? I'd add tons of ornament to depict the character's trembling ! The singing is smooth, pretty but it's as if they're merely reading through the piece... The best version that I've heard is actually sung by Xavier Sabata and directed by George Petrou, on Sabata's CD "Catharsis".

[@SylvieRousseau]

I appreciate this critique from a clearly informed auditor! As an uninitiated listener, I was able to really appreciate this interpretation.

[@GKo2024]

Gelido in ogni vena Gelido in ogni vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror Gelido in ogni vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue Scorrer mi sento il sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror E per maggior mia pena Vedo che fui crudele A un anima innocente Al cuore del mio cor A un anima innocente Al cuore del mio cor Gelido in ogni Vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror Gelido in ogni vena Scorrer mi sento il sangue Scorrer mi sento il sangue L'ombra del figlio e sangue M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror M'ingombra di terror

[@Joggelschorsch]

Where was this recorded, please?

[@lizday8140]

I loved it! But I also loved "It's The Best Day Ever", by Spongebob Squarepants, so what do I know?

[@clealinden7755]

My latest KZbin OCV (obsessive-compulsive viewing...)

[@enthusedtosing9655]

Sounds a bit like Alberich to me, but he is one dedicated artist, with great longevity to boot

[@user-ys4qr7uq6i]

美啊

[@user-is7dz8jl6f]

His real voice show me the images of his words．

[@iestynovich]

This comes coming up on my feed...what did I do wrong?

[@rubreaker1]

Does one of the greatest Lied interpreters of our time really has to do this?

[@bobah1878]

Надо же было такое написать

[@lesgibson969]

and people still listen to rap and stuff...

[@ritahorvath8207]

Rap and hip hop overwhelmed the world with uglyness, noisyness , cruelty and agresssion.

[@PMS1950]

Bostridge has a particular 'yearning' timbre to his voice, which after a while becomes, at least for me, rather irksome. He is clearly an intelligent and sensitive singer with a love not only of the music but a need also to get to the heart of the poetry and express both with equal intensity. In this instance the instrumental playing is fabulous but the vocal interpretation very much a matter of personal taste.

[@jpcoll2011]

I don't know a lot about the vocalist but it's now down as one of my favourites. Such love put into this piece

[@charlesmorein]

Allez vous habiller !

[@indigo6b]

Paul Bates has become my most hatred video director. It's such a horrible piece of art it's almost great.

[@Indiestereographer]

The word you are searching for is "hated" I am your "most hated video director". Paul J. Bates Warners Most Hatred Video Director

[@huet1997]

Polo shirts, stubble, a gurning tenor.

[@biberfan]

Enjoyed singing; orchestra seems rather withdrawn as if it’s a a first rehearsal

[@indigo6b]

I've seen more life in a shoe.

[@Nooticus]

😂

[@nickneale9205]

More life in a sandal

[@karinaadame7360]

Don’t say that 😟

[@ransomcoates546]

What a very strange collection of vocal sounds. I wouldn’t exactly say they constituted singing.

[@ransomcoates546]

@OrganicOrganist The essence of his career was always his imaginative re-interpretation of standard Lieder repertoire. It was never the voice, which now shows worsening of a problem he had withe the management of breath - the ends of phrases wobbling below the pitch. On the interpretative side he shows what has been true of so many singers as they age, the exaggeration of trademarks. They become parodies of themselves. I prefer to remember the several thought provoking recitals I heard him give at the height of his career.

[@Tevyeh613]

See above

[@xdranzer0004]

Which is a shame, considering young Bostridge was a rather fine vocalist. E.g. his Dies Natalis.

[@jonathanfinney7821]

Horrible string tone. No singer ever sang like that, and in the 18th century the singing tone was the 'ideal' for string and w/w instruments.

[@cristinadegrassi8164]

Mi sembra tanto ben suonata ma non altrettanto cantata.

[@DiomedesDioscuro]

Oh, for God sake! Horrid from the very first note! What on earth is going on with people's ears? È il suo canto che mi ingombra di terror!

[@janetglover-kerkvliet3398]

I’m a Bostridge fan but this was… not good. He looks like he’s in pain singing this. I’m wondering how he chose this piece. The harpsichordist looks so bored.

[@megenberg8]

it is about pain. the musicians are very cool. only longhairs would understand.

[@frogmouth]

cold in every vein of my lifeless son afflicts me with terror and to make my agony worse i see that i was cruelto an innocenr soul to my hearts beloved OF COURSE HE IS IN PAIN

[@opricnik]

Una vergogna

[@Tevyeh613]

It is agony to listen to this "singer". I do not understand the mystique. Utterly unlistenable.

[@megenberg8]

most fitting since the song is about just that. I listen - because it is perfectly in keeping w/ both the meaning and music. that says much as the song is everything. long-time music appreciation listener. and I like the video too! this is HIGHLY SKILLFUL playing and singing! to have composed it - a miracle! to be able to play the piece so aptly - astounding! to actually sing this song as he does here - true to the subject and in keeping with all of the complex vocal demands so acutely and expressively described - is a WONDERFUL accomplishment! I am soothed and entranced in the anguish of this exquisite thing. YOWZER!!

[@haldelm5194]

Boring to death.

[@marcelplavec6453]

is NOT in TUNE........sound like SCHOOL ORCHESTRA.....

[@user-up8pb9zj9q]

Он в нотки не попадает, и что за окружение, в такой возвышенной обстановке они в шортах сидят совсем отупели, не знают цену классической музыки

[@davidkempster9535]

pitiful. thin tone, no legato line.he has only ever sung from the shoulders up

[@megenberg8]

its not a number for the 'hale und hearty' don't you know?

[@lurdesramos5261]

Lindo, lindo, lindo! Saudações de Portugal 🇵🇹

[@daniellefoucaut8325]

Obrigada para eles, sou Francesa residente em Portugal e frequentadora deste tipo de música!

[@ceciliatercic7103]

Bravo