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Rattle and the LSO give us a taste of rare but lovely Schumann

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“Fink's high register was astonishingly sweet, and she gave us a lieder singer's balance and delicacy”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 11 January 2015
Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri)
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Sally Matthews, Soprano
Mark Padmore, Tenor
Kate Royal, Soprano
Bernarda Fink, Mezzo-soprano
Andrew Staples, Tenor
Florian Boesch, Baritone
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