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4 days ago

Helen Charlston: A Poet's Love album review original and absorbing

A Poet's Love pairs Schumann's Dichterliebe with Heine settings and a new companion work, using expressive mezzo-soprano and inventive piano performance.
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5 days ago

Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 playfulness, longing and elegance

In the sonata's opening Allegro vivace, he's far less headstrong than, for example, Alfred Brendel or Radu Lupu, but notably more flexible—daringly so at times. Measured phrases are shaded with supple rubato, the line enlivened with tiny dynamic emphases. The expressive slow movement, laced with musical question marks, exudes a calm benevolence.
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