Work: Chansons de Don Quichotte

Don Quixote provides the inspiration for songs by Ravel and Ibert, the high point of a bitty programme in contrast to an early evening recital which followed the perfect trajectory.

For the first Lied, we rediscover his velvet and rosewood timbre, so skilled at painting the chiaroscuro of the human soul.

“The show must go on.” Carlo Colombara stepped into the breach caused by Simone Piazzola's indispostion to give a Rosenblatt Recital that only fired intermittently.