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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.

From Fauré and Duparc to Barber, Ives and Copland, the Canadian bass-baritone and Julius Drake explore a range of song.

Jamie Barton and Kathleen Kelly offer a thought-provoking meditation on women as they are portrayed and as they portray themselves.

The second half was all about Ravel and Adrian Brendel.

Poise, control, stillness. Within two minutes of her Wigmore Hall debut, the qualities that make Elīna Garanča a consummate Lieder recitalist were evident.

Elina Garanča was alluring in a lovely recital of Brahms, Duparc and Rachmaninov with pianist Malcolm Martineau. 

Twentysomething Philippe Sly wields an impressive voice. Like the mythical John Henry’s hammer, it rings like silver in the upper register, the middle shines like gold, and his bass is firm as iron. From the second line of Henri Duparc’s “Chanson Triste” Sly interested with his way of rolling out phrases, englobing lines in cavernous spaces.

Recital catárquico de Juan Diego Flórez en el Teatro Real con una sucesión de arias a medio camino entre la espectacularidad y el sentido del humor

Duparc disait que « la vraie musique, la seule, est la musique d'âme et d'émotion ». Il aurait trouvé avec Marie-Nicole Lemieux accompagnée par Roger Vignoles dans un programme de mélodies françaises, une parfaite illustration de son propos.