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Is there any instrument more bittersweet than the viola? The violin does the acrobatics, the cello is more conventionally beautiful, but the viola sits in the middle of the orchestral palette like no other instrument. Neither high nor low, it’s perfectly placed to embody the contradictory and the conflicted, ideal for a sense of desire denied or of fulfilment deferred.

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.

Non content d’associer deux compositeurs unanimement appréciés par les mélomanes, avertis ou non, le programme fait montre d’une vraie intelligence, celle de faire la part belle à deux lectures plus personnelles que bêtement nationales de la spiritualité.