Work: 7 Romances on Poems by Blok for soprano, violin, cello and piano, Op.127

This enticing ensemble of soprano and piano trio evoked, delighted and expressed with heightened intensity in less well-known repertoire, including from some big names.

Joan Rodger's idiomatic soprano and the surging cello obbligato were revelatory in this symbolist paean.

In a thoroughly riveting recital at the Concertgebouw, soprano Anna Prohaska probes Ophelia’s psyche through songs from the nineteenth century onwards.