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Repressed passions, Russian melancholy: Elīna Garanča makes a splendid Wigmore Hall debut

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“she scaled back her rich, velvety smooth mezzo – with just a flash of silver at the top”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 11 December 2015
Brahms, Liebestreu (Fidelity in Love), Op.3 no.1
Brahms, Liebe und Frühling II (Love and Spring II), Op.3 no.3
Brahms, Geheimnis (Secret), Op.71 no.3
Brahms, Wir wandelten (We Were Walking), Op.96 no.2
Brahms, O liebliche Wangen (Oh Lovely Face), Op.47 no.4
Brahms, Sapphische Ode, Op.94 no.4
Brahms, Die schöne Magelone, Op.33 no.9: Ruhe, Süßliebchen
Brahms, Heimweh II (Homesickness II), Op.63 no.8
Brahms, Alte Liebe (Old Love), Op.72 no.1
Brahms, Mädchenlied (Girl's Song), Op.107 no.5
Brahms, Die Mainacht (The May Night), Op.43 no.2
Brahms, Es träumte mir, Op.57 no.3
Brahms, Verzagen (Despondency), Op.72 no.4
Brahms, Von ewiger Liebe (Of Everlasting Love), Op.43 no.1
Duparc, Au pays où se fait la guerre
Duparc, Extase
Duparc, Phidylé
Rachmaninov, Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not! Op.4 no.1
Rachmaninov, I fell in love, to my sorrow, (Poljubila ja na pechal' svoju) Op.8 no.4
Rachmaninov, Twilight, Op.21 no.3
Rachmaninov, They replied, Op.21 no.4
Rachmaninov, I await you, (Ja zhdu tebja) Op.14 no.1
Rachmaninov, Lilacs (Siren'), Op.21 no.5
Rachmaninov, Night is sorrowful, Op.26 no.12
Rachmaninov, Do not sing, my beauty (Ne poy krasavitsa pri mne), Op.4 no.4
Brahms, Meine liebe ist grün (My love’s as green), Op.63 no.5
Strauss R., Morgen! Op.27 no.4
Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-soprano
Roger Vignoles, Piano
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