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Article: Music Britten Songs Wigmore Hall, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1996
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A notable Aldeburgh Festival programme from a quarter of a
century ago was touchingly recreated in the first of two recitals
given on Tuesday as part of the Wigmore Hall's festival of The
Britten Songs. That original programme occasioned the premiere of
Britten's Canticle IV, a setting of TS Eliot's "Journey of the
Magi". It is a work of the utmost concentration whose opening
proposition is extended and developed with a spare ingenuity that
uncannily matches the poem's terse vernacular. If the austere
musical narrative lacks the persuasive warmth of, say, Canticle II:
"Abraham and Isaac", which also featured in the programme, there is
a sharpness of focus that compels attention throughout, ...
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May 29, 1996 ;
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... ... Friday morning. You could have sold the Wigmore Hall 10 times over. But then Cecilia Bartoli ... she can do, and where to do it. A Wigmore Hall date meets all the requirements. A ... Bartoli was very much "on stage" (the Wigmore Hall approximating to the kind of singer ...
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