Barbican Hall
Schumann – Kerner-Lieder, op.35
Duparc – L’Invitation au voyage; Phidylé;
Le Manoir de Rosemonde; Chanson triste; La Vie antérieureBritten – Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, op.22
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Just a diary item, here, to remind me that I went, and what I heard: sorry…
I decided, not least in the light of both having been under the weather and being very busy, that it would be good to take advantage of
an opportunity to attend without writing. I am sure that many others who were there at this excellent
recital will have accounts for you, in any case. My highlight? Hearing the Duparc songs
sound so post-Wagnerian from Jonas Kaufmann and so post-Lisztian from Helmut Deutsch. Schumann and Britten received right royal treatment too. I shall stop now, though,
before this metamorphoses into a review… Normal service will be resumed very soon.
