Mark has worked in arts journalism for more than thirty years, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera, music and musical theatre. Mark also writes for Musical America as opera correspondent for Europe and the UK.
The pleasure of Gerhaher’s comforting persona and his instinctive convergence with Huber’s pianism won over the Wigmore Hall audience – as they invariably do.
Two dozen heroes played one of the house composer’s most intense and technically demanding scores with bravura skill and a collegiate musicality that stirred the spirit.
It sizzles with energy, fizzes with musical delight and rejoices in an understated sense of fun. Conway gives the work’s incongruities free rein and defies the audience not to chuckle.
