Sarah Connolly brings the best of British to Tuscany

Von Jonathan Sutherland, 25 August 2017

Laden, bitte warten...

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: La Foce, Siena, am 5 August 2017

Mahler, Rückert-Lieder

Poulenc, Banalités, FP 107

Debussy, Chansons de Bilitis

Britten, A Charm of Lullabies for mezzo soprano and piano, Op.41

Bennett, A History of Thé Dansant

Händel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga

Dame Sarah Connolly, Mezzosopran

Julius Drake, Klavier

Ian Bostridge bringt Krieg in all seinen Facetten nach Köln

Cristina Burack, 7th January

Trotz räumlicher Herausforderungen zeigt der Tenor Ian Bostridge mit dem hervorragenden Julius Drake am Klavier warum er als Meister der Lieder gilt.

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Les péchés capiteux d'Axelle Fanyo et Fleur Barron à l'Athénée

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 16th February

Les deux chanteuses ont proposé un panorama innovant des sept péchés capitaux à travers les styles et les cultures, avec la complicité unificatrice de Julius Drake au piano.

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Le Voyage d’hiver de Bostridge, Drake et Warner pétrifie l’Athénée

Pierre Michel, 20th November

Ian Bostridge et Julius Drake proposent une interprétation exceptionnelle du cycle schubertien, sublimée par la mise en scène de Deborah Warner et les lumières de Jean Kalman, jusqu'à l'énigme finale.

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Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Cameron Kelsall, 12th February

A fully produced performance of Brahms' Die schӧne Magelone in Philadelphia, complete with on-stage narrator and bespoke drawings, proved less than the sum of its parts.

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Fauré Song Gala a showcase for the composer's mélodies

Mark Valencia, 13th September

Fauré was the finest of French songwriters. Stéphane Degout and Véronique Gens shine in a full-length evening in a packed Wigmore Hall.

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Gerald Finley and Julius Drake bring Night and Day to London

Mark Valencia, 24th November

Heinrich Heine settings by Schumann and Schubert are counter-balanced by Duparc and Cole Porter in a Temple Song recital reflecting on night and day.

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Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.