Cheltenham festival opening weekend | Classical review

Various venuesThere's hardly a festival this year that isn't homing in on the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, but Cheltenham's focuses on his mental illness and that of three other composers, Gesualdo, Wolf and Mahler, whose anniversaries also fall in 2010.Schumann's Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op 121 has the hallmarks of instability, with ruminative, lyrical lines and passionate outbursts. Its ebb and flow eludes many, but not violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien. Thei...

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