{"id":6292,"date":"2021-03-02T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:40:44","slug":"oxford-lieder-winterreise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=6292","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Lieder Winterreise"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the way from the resonant arpeggios of Gute Nacht to the haunting, wistful A minor pianissimo of Der Leiermann<\/a>, this is an elegant, thoughtfully judged Winterreise. We are taken, very effectively, on the final journey.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dietrich Henshel is an admirably unshowy performer. He stands simply beside the piano without swaying or arm waving. The drama is entirely in his voice and face but there\u2019s plenty of it. His Der Lindenbaum is warmly impassioned, his Fruhlingstraum finds a lovely lilt in the opening bars and his high notes and big intervals\u00a0 are nicely controlled in Letzte Hoffnung. I found his Die Wetterfahne<\/a> a bit breathy but it\u2019s a fairly minor quibble.<\/p>\n

Warmest praise too for Sholto Kynoch\u2019s work on piano. These pieces are – when performed as sensitively as this –\u00a0 definitely duets rather than songs \u201caccompanied\u201d by piano. In Der Wegweiser, for example, Kynoch\u2019s exquisite playing really highlights the breathless effect. \u00a0Interestingly Kynoch manages his music by technological alchemy \u2013 a tablet on the music stand, presumably controlled by a left foot blue tooth pedal. It\u2019s a neat way of precluding the need for a human page turner in close proximity in these Covid-compliant times \u2013 if you\u2019re brave enough.<\/p>\n

The concert began with emerging artist Anna Cavaliero singing two Schubert songs. Her singing is crisp and warm and she, too, has a tightly integrated rapport with Kynoch on piano.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to be back in the Holywell Room, with Petroch Trelawny as the ever urbane, competent, knowledgeable link man. I wish, however, we didn\u2019t have to have those lights decorating the balusters behind the piano which, when you watch digitally, connote all the gaudiness of cheap Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n

An advantage of watching digitally, though, is the way the subtitles are now managed. You are given the whole poem at the side of the screen with a moving highlight so that you know exactly where you are and a line by line translation at the bottom of the screen. As a non-Germanist I like this although I suspect purists might find it irritating. It\u2019s new technology for Oxford Lieder so I\u2019ll make allowances for the couple of times when the performance moved to the next number but the printed text didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Susan Elkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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