“…Bostridge is a true storyteller with skin-deep sensitivity and incomparable diction.”

The Folly of Desire, performed by Ian Bostridge and Brad Mehldau, received a wonderful five-star review in Diapason Magazine’s June issue!

“Heterogeneous in the choice of its poems, Mehldau’s collection is also heterogeneous in its music, in which cross the German romanticism of Schubert or Schumann, but also Ravel, as much as pop and rock. This concentration of influences, which acts as a unity in diversity, signs a paradoxically personal style which has had no problem gaining in maturity.

Nestled in post-impressionist colors, The Folly of Desire plays with chiaroscuros (major/minor ambiguity, torn harmonies), and unfolds a generous lyricism. Success would be nothing without the incarnation of Bostridge, a true storyteller with skin-deep sensitivity and incomparable diction.”

Frédéric Degroote

Read the full interview in Diapason magazine.