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Taut rhythms and emotional tension were lacking in this production of Brecht and Weill’s work
The accompanist was joined by a starry cast of colleagues in a concert with a playful mood
An ambitious project to perform all the composer’s songs at a single event
A serious work from HK Gruber at the end of a long career of hilarity A serious work at the end of a long career of hilarity from the consummately Viennese composer HK Gruber
The mezzo-soprano and the tenor took on the songs of Hugo Wolf with seriousness of purpose and beautiful singing
Oliver Knussen draws out the pungency of the composer’s language while Mark Elder has command of the score
The tenor’s ‘Figures from the Antique’ programme pairs baroque and 20th-century portraits of villainy, with works by Satie, Britten, Scarlatti and Handel
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