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The Spectator |
by Michael Tanner |
Edinburgh Festival, August 2002: Die
schöne Müllerin
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Music in Edinburgh, Festival 2002
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Usher Hall, Edinburgh |
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It was characteristic of this year’s Festival
that the first three song recitals should all be on the same day, six days
after the opening. In the evening we had Ian Bostridge singing Vaughan
Williams, Schubert and Faure, with Julius Drake and the Belcea Quartet, very
much the pallid intellectual interpreter, unsmiling, deadly serious,
purveying a continuous rather sickly intensity, varieties of pianissimo his
forte. An hour after his concert ended, Jonas Kaufmann, heartthrob of last
year’s Festival, bounded onto the stage and, with the marvellously
sympathetic accompaniment of Helmut Deutsch, gave an exhilaratingly alfresco
account of Die schoene Mullerin. He has a full, rich but fairly small tenor
voice, and if he continues to use it as sensitively as he has done in
Edinburgh, he should take his place among the ranks of major German lyric
tenors. |
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