Outside, meteorological spring has just taken its leave; inside, in the Aula of Heidelberg’s Old University, it is cold anyway: Schubert’s Winterreise. There are solitary summit works in music history whose performance becomes, time and again, a quasi-existential challenge—for both sides, for the artists as well as for the listeners. In the end stands absolute nothingness. Together with his extraordinarily sensitive piano partner, Timoshenko allows us to share in this journey toward complete—and thus existential—desolation. For at the end of the Winterreise there may not even be death, but absolute nothingness.
In partnership with the Musée d’Orsay, Royaumont Abbey welcomes duos of young singers and pianists who have come to study art song and Lied [...]
Baritone Mikhail Timoshenko and pianist Elitsa Desseva received the Eduard Erdmann Advancement Prize 2024. In its citation, the jury commended the duo’s long-standing artistic engagement and dedication to the song repertoire of composer Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958) [...]
