| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 4-Aug-2012 Haus für Mozart | Moving Mahler at Hampson's Salzburg Recital |
 The baritone Thomas Hampson is a popular figure at the Salzburg Festival, having appeared there regularly since 1988, and at his Lieder recital with pianist Wolfram Rieger at the Haus der Mozart, one sensed a warm rapport between him and the audience. His programme consisted of Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39, Dvořák’s Zigeunermelodien and Mahler’s songs based on the text of Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
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| 21-Jun-2012 Konzerthaus: Mozart Saal | Transcendental Song: Mark Padmore and Christianne Stotijn at Vienna's Konzerthaus |
 Dichterliebe is a Lieder programme staple but performances of Schumann’s anti-song cycle, the Op. 39 Liederkreis, are much harder to come by. The latter work fascinates me more, with its themes, in the twelve Eichendorff poems carefully selected by Schumann, of broken, alienated subjects longing for that from which they are cut off, namely love, nature, and some guarantee of existential wellbeing.Read full review... | |
| 1-Jun-2011 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | Words and Music |
 Many writers dream of having letters after their name, particularly if those letters are -esque. The idea that one's prose style prompts recognition and imitation has an obvious appeal. Few could have been more surprised at attracting this suffix than Franz Kafka (1883–1924) who, having had no novels published in his lifetime urged, without success, the posthumous destruction of his opus.Read full review... | |
