Work: Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op.29 no.1

Almost every June from 1989 to 1999, I visited the charming town of Feldkirch, in the Vorarlberg region of Western Austria, for the annual Schubertiade, originally founded in 1976 by the great German baritone Hermann Prey.

Diana Damrau performs Mozart and Strauss at the Grafenegg Festival, located about an hour’s drive from Vienna.

Technically dazzling performances are curiously subdued at Cadogan Hall on Monday lunchtime chamber prom.