Britten's Five Canticles at the Wigmore Hall

Von Emily Owen, 07 Dezember 2012

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wigmore Hall, London, am 30 November 2012

Britten, Canticle I, My beloved is mine, for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.40

Britten, Canticle II, Abraham and Isaac, Chester miracle play, Op.51

Britten, Canticle V, The Death of Saint Narcissus, for tenor and harp, Op.89

Britten, Canticle IV, The Journey of the Magi, for countertenor, tenor, baritone and piano, Op.86

Britten, Canticle III, Still Falls the Rain, for tenor, horn and piano, Op.55

Iestyn Davies, Countertenor

Mark Padmore, Tenor

Marcus Farnsworth, Bariton

Julius Drake, Klavier

Lucy Wakeford, Harfe

Richard Watkins, Horn

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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Emily Owen

A postgraduate student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama specialising in early music, Emily Owen is a freelance soprano, singing with numerous ensembles. She deputises in churches around London and also manages the newly formed London Youth Choir. Her website is here.