Richter/Prégardien/Drake – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonIn terms of their musical subtlety and the complex interaction between words and notes, the songs of Hugo Wolf offer some of the greatest challenges in the entire lieder repertory. All the more remarkable, then, was the success of the 21-year-old German soprano Anna Lucia Richter, who took over this Wigmore recital at very short notice from the more experienced Julia Kleiter. Impressively, not a single item on the programme had to be altered.She shared this first concert in a...

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