| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Mar-2013 Wigmore Hall | Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau at the Wigmore Hall |
 Centered around the later, lesser-known composers of art song, tonight’s programme started with a first half of melancholy Hugo Wolf Lieder. Both Schubert and Schumann wrote settings of Goethe’s unhappy Harfenspieler, but evidently Wolf was unsatisfied, as, on principle, he avoided setting texts which he thought had been successfully treated before. Wolf of course has the advantage of post-Wagnerian harmony and the sumptuous opening sequence to “Harfenspieler I” was an example of this.Read full review... | |
| 10-Feb-2013 UC Berkeley: Hertz Hall | Pathos and power: Eric Owens recital in Berkeley |
 Bass-baritone Eric Owens is no stranger to Bay Area voice aficionados. After making his local debut as Lodovico in Otello with San Francisco Opera in 2002, Owens memorably created the diet-regiment-reciting General Leslie Groves there in the world première of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic in 2005. Most recently he did yeoman's work with a smaller role in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi in October.Read full review... | |
| 15-Sep-2012 St Anne's Episcopal Church | Lammermuir Festival: Maxwell String Quartet and guitarist Allan Neave |
 There’s nothing like a festival coming to your neighbourhood to highlight gaps in local knowledge. Despite having grown up 12 miles from Dunbar, I’d never spotted, far less entered, St Anne’s Episcopal Church. It is a gem of a place with a superb chamber music acoustic. The separation and blend of instruments heard there would require a hi-fi several hundred times the price of a ticket for this live performance.
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| 12-Sep-2012 Wigmore Hall | Songs of Travel at the Wigmore Hall with Roderick Williams and Gary Matthewman |
 _Roderick Williams_credit Benjamin Ealovega.jpg) Those few seconds of breathless silence at the end of a recital before thunderous applause are a rare thing, and a sure sign that the evening has been a success. Such was the case at the Wigmore Hall on Wednesday night after Roderick Williams and Gary Matthewman were called back to the stage for a second encore. We had been treated to an evening of Lieder and English song centred around Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel and the theme of wandering. Roderick Williams made the perfect vagabond, filling the stage with a confident presence that captivated the entire room.Read full review... | |
