Leiferkus/Skigin | Classical review

Wigmore Hall, LondonSergei Leiferkus's recital opened with Schumann's Op 39 Liederkreis, and it was soon apparent that his choice was a mistake. Leiferkus, one of classical music's great communicators, was on this occasion projecting comparatively little. The problem, one suspects, had less to do with language or with the appropriateness of his voice for the music, than with the fact that he seemed imaginatively ill suited to Schumann's methodology.Leiferkus has been comfortable in the German r...

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