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2024-04-23 13:45:43
SCRUTINY | Lieder Am Nachmittag: Goerne And Kissin In Schumann & Brahms
Let’s hope that we won’t have to wait another 14 years to hear Matthias Goerne in Toronto again, after this weekend's recital with Evgeny Kissin at Roy Thomson Hall.
2024-04-23 07:26:00
Attention must be paid: the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart, Bartok, Maja Ratkje, and Fanny Mendelssohn
[…] she was 29 and already married). It is her only mature essay in the genre and after the first, private performance, her brother Felix disapproved strongly of it, especially of what he perceived as an undisciplined approach to form! The four short movements are quite free and rhapsodic (the opening movement is certainly not the sonata form that would have been expected) and listening to the piece I was struck by its closeness to Robert Schumann's collections of characteristic pieces, and wondered whether, in an ideal world, the composer might have used a slightly different form for the work. It was only published in 1988 and deserves to be far better known.The opening Adagio ma non troppo was achingly yearning and richly textured, short yet remarkably free. The following Allegretto was steady yet full of character with a vivid central section that seemed to have lots of moving parts. The […]
2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] more challenging contrast. They began with Oliver Knussen's Walt Whitman setting, The Dalliance of Eagles, challenging indeed with its athletic vocal writing, almost instrumental in style. This was drama, vibrantly done with vivid piano accompaniment, though words were very much at a premium here. In complete contrast, came a sensitive account of Frank Bridge's Come to me in my dreams, touching and concentrated.Deirunas Jasiulionis (tenor) and Fang-Lin Liu (piano) gave us two songs from Robert Schumann's Myrthen. Freisinn was full of swagger and vigour with admirably firm piano accompaniment, then Zum Schluss was lyrical. Jasiulionis has quite an intense voice, and I wondered whether he might have been better served by more vividly 20th century music. Elia Farreras Cabero (soprano) and Lucas Huber Sierra (piano) paired Schumann with Wolf. First, Wolf's Mignon I (Do not bid me speak) performed with concentrated focus and real intensity plus a fine concentration on the words. Then […]
2024-04-18 12:02:14
Wigmore Hall, LondonMurray Perahia’s long relationship with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields saw the conductor and pianist on stage to be part of Schumann’s Piano QuintetThe Academy of St Martin in the Fields is currently marking
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