A Winter Journey with John Chest

Von Mark Valencia, 14 März 2018

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“It was scarcely possible to breathe during his encore... so ineffably did it touch the sublime”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wigmore Hall, London, am 13 März 2018

Finzi, Let Us Garlands Bring, Op.18: O Mistress Mine, no.4

Schubert, An mein Herz (Schulze), D. 860

Wolf, Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 3: Verschwiegene Liebe

Strauss R., Winternacht, Op.15 no.2

Brahms, Verzagen (Despondency), Op.72 no.4

Roussel, Quatre poèmes Op.3 no. 3: Le jardin mouillé

Schubert, Der Winterabend (Leitner), D. 938

Finzi, Before and After Summer, Op.16: Childhood among the Ferns

Duparc, Chanson triste, Op.2 no.4

Schumann, Wehmut, Op.39 no.9

Wolf, Mörike-Lieder, no. 12: Verborgenheit

Britten, Winter Words for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.52

Mahler, Rückert-Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Duparc, Extase

Wolf, Mörike-Lieder, no. 13: Im Fruhling

Gurney, Sleep

Schubert, Nacht und Träume (M. v. Collin), D.827

John Chest, Bariton

Marcelo Amaral, Klavier

Händels Theodora mit Il Pomo d'Oro und Starbesetzung in Essen

Jens Klier, 26th November

Händels bestes Oratorium mit fabelhaften Instrumentalisten, Choristen, DiDonato und Bénos-Dijan sowie einer weiteren luxuriösen Sängerbesetzung.

***11

Vorspiel zur Revolution: Le nozze di Figaro an der Oper Zürich

Alexandra Richter, 6th July

Mozarts Figaro unterhält das Züricher Publikum mit einer kurzweiligen Inszenierung und hervorragender Besetzung.

***11

L’implacable Werther de Pichon et Huffman à l’Opéra-Comique

Romain Daroles, 19th January

Jeu orchestral resserré, épure du plateau scénique : le chef et le metteur en scène accordent parfaitement leurs propositions pour faire de l'œuvre de Massenet un drame intime et intemporel.

****1

A dark, delicious take on Elizabeth Cree at Glimmerglass Festival

Cameron Kelsall, 28th July

Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught anchors a fluid and appealingly staged new production of Kevin Puts' penny dreadful.

****1

Carry on up the Nile: Handel's Berenice by the Seine

Sandra Bowdler, 21st May

One of Handel's lesser operas receives a deluxe concert performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, with Il Pomo d'Oro and a fine array of singers.

****1

A starry cast for Handel's Theodora in Paris

Kevin W Ng, 22nd November

It’s hard to imagine more glorious vocalism from such a starry cast, but this Theodora at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées falls short of the sublime.

***11

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

A Winter Journey with John Chest and Marcelo Amaral at Wigmore Hall