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The Norwegian soprano impresses in a Lieder programme that proves the highlight of the Aldeburgh Festival’s opening weekend. 

A double-header celebrates Schubert featuring Allan Clayton and Paul Lewis in Winterreise and the Austrian folk/rock band The Erllkings.

In her New York recital debut, the young Norwegian soprano displays the extent of her vocal and theatrical power in an unusually wide-ranging program of songs and opera arias. 

Mahler and Schubert: masters of both song and symphony. Jacqueline Porter is the soloist as the SSO under Umberto Clerici perform Schubert arrangements and Mahler's classical Fourth Symphony.

Marian Anderson, the famed African-American contralto, once remarked of Kathleen Ferrier, “My God, what a voice – and what a face!” This concert was a Centenary Celebration of Ferrier’s art at the Wigmore Hall, and I reflected (not for the first time) how aptly Anderson’s words could also apply to Alice Coote, the evening’s distinguished soloist.

On Sunday afternoon the most recent recipient of the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award, Kitty Whately, was welcomed to the Clothworkers’ Hall by Leeds Lieder, an organisation founded in the hope of introducing art song to a new audience.

The holiday season in New York can be a bit maddening, an unrelenting assault to the senses amid the crush of humanity present throughout the city. Luckily, then, the Philharmonic provided an evening’s respite with powerful and largely understated works by Haydn, Schubert, and Ravel. After Haydn’s Symphony no.

Bei Appls Liedersammlung „Forbidden Fruits“ zeigte der neue Konzertsaal im Münchner Kulturkraftwerk Bergson fabelhafte Eignung für die Kammermusik.

El acierto de Davidsen radicó en no intentar llevar su voz al territorio el lied, sino en traer las canciones a su zona de lucimiento.

El recital de la soprano Ana Ruge, dentro del ciclo Sonidos y Sentidos, ofreció la oportunidad de disfrutar, a través de un ecléctico programa, de la fabulosa voz y musicalidad de la cantante. 

Anna Lucia Richter se estrena en el XXVII Ciclo de Lied del CNDM con una excelente selección de lieder de Mahler, Wolf y Schubert.

Le sublime duo Dessay/Cassard éblouit le public lyonnais dans un récital de lied et de mélodies généreux et riche en émotions.

A ratos íntimo y a ratos valiente concierto de Natalie Dessay, a medio camino entre el lied y la mélodie francesa