Sumptuous Strauss from Louise Alder

Por Mark Pullinger, 23 julio 2017

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“her melting opening lines of À Chloris won me over immediately”

Crítica hecha desde Wigmore Hall, Londres el 22 julio 2017

Hahn, Mélodies, 2e recueil: À Chloris

Hahn, Douze Rondels: Le Printemps

Debussy, Quatre chansons de jeunesse

Liszt, Tre sonetti di Petrarca, S 270

Poulenc, Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon, FP 122

Strauss R., Wie erkenn ich mein Treulieb?, Op.67 Nr.1

Strauss R., Guten Morgen, 's ist Valentinstag, Op.67 Nr.2

Strauss R., Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß, Op.67 Nr.3

Strauss R., Ständchen, Op.17 no.2

Strauss R., Allerseelen (All Souls' Day), Op.10 no.8

Strauss R., Heimliche Aufforderung, Op.27 no.3

Strauss R., Zueignung (Dedication), Op.10 no.1

Strauss R., Morgen! Op.27 no.4

Britten, On this Island for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.11

Bolcom, Cabaret songs: George

Louise Alder, Soprano

Gary Matthewman, Piano

Leeds Lieder+ From Europe to America – A Day of Song

Richard Wilcocks, 14th October

The sharp linguistic and enunciative abilities of Romanian mezzo Adriana Festeu are as impressive as her singing. Accompanied by Nico de Villiers, she launched “Leeds Lieder+ From Europe to America – A Day of Song” in the morning at Leeds University’s Clothworkers Hall with “Songs My Mother Taught Me”. She dealt very convincingly with Dvořák’s Gypsy Songs in Czech, followed by 5 Lieder, Op.

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Songs of Travel at the Wigmore Hall with Roderick Williams and Gary Matthewman

Emily Owen, 12th September

Those few seconds of breathless silence at the end of a recital before thunderous applause are a rare thing, and a sure sign that the evening has been a success. Such was the case at the Wigmore Hall on Wednesday night after Roderick Williams and Gary Matthewman were called back to the stage for a second encore.

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Excelente cierre de Ibermúsica con la Filarmónica de Berlín

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 3rd May

El concierto en Madrid de la Filarmónica de Berlín con Kirill Petrenko al frente y un programa únicamente de obras de Mozart cerró la temporada de Ibermúsica.

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Perdidos en la espesura: Don Giovanni en el Teatro Real

Juan José Freijo, 18th December

Claus Guth nos traslada a un entorno sombrío y lúgubre para narrar las horas finales de un Don Giovanni herido de muerte.

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Resignificando lo grotesco: La Calisto en el Teatro Real

David Santana Cañas, 17th March

Depravación, lujuria y extravagancia se imponen en el Teatro Real de la mano de David Alden para mostrarnos la hermosa música de Cavalli.

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Willis-Sørensen headlines a successful Arabella revival at the Met

Ako Imamura, 10th November

The Metropolitan Opera revives Otto Schenk’s venerable staging of Strauss’s intimate melodrama.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Sumptuous Strauss from Louise Alder in Wigmore jump-in