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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. 

Across town the Proms were sounding their final hurrah for another year, but Wigmore Hall opened their 2012/13 season with an altogether more serious repertoire of Rachmaninov and Shostakovich songs.

Diana Damrau und Helmut Deutsch gelang mit ihrem Festspiel-Liederabend in der Bayerischen Staatsoper ein Liederabend der Extraklasse, der neben Schubert und Richard Strauss auch Werke von Rachmaninow bot.