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Nicky Spence and Roger Vignoles: a rapturous seasonal concert at Wigmore Hall

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“a man whose bonhomie conceals a serious artist of prodigious gifts”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 28 December 2018
Schumann, Myrthen: Hochlanders Abschied, Op.25 no.13
Schumann, Myrthen: Jemand, Op.25 no.4
Schumann, Myrthen: Hochlandisches Wiegenlied, Op.25 no.14
Schumann, Myrthen: Niemand, Op.25 no.22
Schumann, Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb, Op.27 no.2
Shostakovich, Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano: O wert thou in the cauld blast Op.62 no. 2
Shostakovich, Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano: Macpherson's Farewell Op.62 no. 3
Shostakovich, Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano: Jenny Op.62 no. 4
Britten, Who are these Children? for tenor and piano, Op.84
Musgrave, A Song for Christmas
Hughes, Oh men from the fields
Stanford, The Monkey's Carol
Howells, Come sing and dance
Respighi, Nevicata
Rodrigo, Pastorcito santo
Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28: That Yonge Childe
Debussy, Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison
Strauss R., Weihnachtsgefühl TrV 198
Strauss R., Winterweihe, Op.48 no.4
Wolf, Epiphanias
Nicholas, Valentine Card
Nicky Spence, Tenor
Roger Vignoles, Piano
From the sublime to the surreal: Louise Alder returns to Wigmore Hall
****1
Elizabeth Watts braves the flu in Amsterdam
***11
Alek Shrader - a mysterious Wigmore debut
***11
Repressed passions, Russian melancholy
****1
Dynamic and fun-packed Mamelles de Tirésias
***11
Spacious Schubert from Prégardien
***11
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