What a relief to shelter from the sweltering heat and spend an hour with music of such radiance and beauty from a husband and wife dream team . A moving mixture of Schubert ‘Winterreise’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Songs of Travel’ . The programme is titled ‘Journey 100’, commemorating the 100thy anniversary of the birth of the German baritone Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau (1925- 2012) who was an enormously influential artist and for many ,his voice epitomises a refined lyrical ,articulate manner of performance through which the poetry shines. The programme’s journey visits two major,and very different, landmarks of music of music history’s large corpus of ‘wayfaring’ or ‘wandering’ songs.The splitting of cycles and the rapid moves between Schubert and Vaughan Williams encourage us to consider various things beyond their musical and poetic differences – the nature of song programming and performance norms over time, for instance, and the interventions made by composers, authors,performers,publishers and others that trouble perceptions of cycles solely as linear wholes.That this concert begins with ‘Der Leiermann’ uproots any preconceptions that the journey might be linear: the song’s status as the stark ending of Winterise is iconic, and placing it at the start allows us to encounter its eerie, repetitive sound-world without then weight of the 23 preceding songs, and without context for the protagonist’s unsettling questions. A beauty of diction that made the song sheet superfluous especially when the pianist could highlight and illuminate even the tinkle from a stray mobile! John Humphreys comments : ‘I had a mobile going off in ‘Der Leiermann’ once…stopped playing, silence, started again, same mobile ringing. To be fair the offender apologised afterwards and said she was phoning to see if someone could offer the organ grinder a bed for the night…!’ Wonderfully cool oasis of civilised culture whilst London seethes with scantily clad tourists intent on drinking the city dry !
Dès les premières notes de Ravel, fascinante figuration pianistique d’une guitare rêvée, on est captivé par le jeu d’Elitsa Desseva et on le restera jusqu’à la fin du concert. La jeune pianiste nous fait entrer dans la profondeur du son des harmonies ravéliennes...
''With dramatic phatos'' The outstanding bass-baritone Mikhail Timoshenko from Russia and Bulgarian pianist Elitsa Desseva were the winners of the competition. These two exceptional artists harmonised together in a real duo...
Baritone Mikhail Timoshenko and pianist Elitsa Desseva set as a duo standards on the international stage...
Hervorragend war der Eindruck, den Mikhail Timoshenko (Bariton) und Elitsa Desseva (Klavier) bei verschiedenen Liedern hinterließen. Bei Hugo Wolfs „Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden“ (aus dem Italienischen Liederbuch) erreichten die aus dem Sprachfall angeleiteten Melodien eine große harmonische Spannweite, die Mikhail Timoshenko ausgezeichnet auslotete...
Der vielfach ausgezeichnete russische Bariton Mikhail Timoshenko hat ein wunderbares Timbre und singt diese Meisterwerke der deutschen Romantik mit exzellentem Legato, sehr klarer Aussprache und deutlicher Artikulation. Seine langjährige Klavierpartnerin Elitsa Desseva, die ebenfalls mehrere bedeutende Wettbewerbe für sich entschieden hat, agiert auf Augenhöhe....
What a relief to shelter from the sweltering heat and spend an hour with music of such radiance and beauty from a husband and wife dream team . A moving mixture of Schubert ‘Winterreise’ and Vaughan Williams ‘Songs of Travel’...
