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High Romance in a small Midlands town: the Oxford Lieder Festival opening concert launches an enticing series.

Christian Gerhaher demonstrates an extraordinary range of vocal colours in settings of biblical psalms and High Romantic poetry.

As part of the Konzerthaus’ Mittagsmusik (Midday Music) series, young soprano Anna Lucia Richter teamed up this week with one of the greatest living song accompanists, Gerold Huber, to present an extraordinarily varied matinée of songs in the Schubertsaal.

A stormy evening in New York was a perfect setting for an intimate and unforgettable lieder recital by the two long-term collaborators at the top of their game.

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber make of an evening devoted to the songs of Maher an experience hard to do justice to in words.

Soprano Anna Lucia Richter sings Schubert and Wolf with tonal beauty and eloquent intensity, sensitively and unerringly accompanied by Gerold Huber.

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber leave the audience speechless in Madrid with an all-Schumann recital in an evening that will not easily be forgotten.

If this first song recital of the season is any indication of the level we can expect at the Konzerthaus, lovers of Lieder are in for a real treat. Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber set the bar very high last night in a hefty program including Schumann’s Dichterliebe and a dozen other songs, a set of Fauré, and the world première of a song cycle by Jörg Widmann.

With all the attention rightly focused on the demise of the Minnesota Orchestra and the New York City Opera, it would be easy to believe that the musical arts are in dire straits in America. In some ways they are. But from the funding rubble of the financial crisis new groups and new facilities are sprouting too.

Christian Gerhaher und Gerold Huber widmeten ihr Konzert bei den Salzburger Festspielen ganz dem Namen Robert Schumann und gaben Einblicke sowohl in das frühe als auch das späte Liedschaffen des Komponisten.

Los dos músicos alemanes emocionan con una sencillez y expresión extremos en el Teatro de la Zarzuela

Die Vorfreude auf dieses Konzert hätte nicht größer sein können, in dem das Duo Gerhaher-Huber eine ungewöhnliche Interpretation der Winterreise zeigte - mit großem Erfolg.

Es passiert nicht oft, dass ein Kritiker sich einer perfekten künstlerischen Leistung gegenüber sieht und nur bewundernd schweigt. Hier ist es geschehen.