Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonAndreas Scholl's latest project with the pianist Tamar Halperin explores melancholy, as captured in lieder from Haydn to Brahms. It's a nice idea: it emphasises continuities in sensibility, sometimes overlooked, between classical and Romantic composers. It also fits rather well with the idea of Scholl as a dreamer or visionary among today's countertenors. Whether it all works in practice, however, is another matter. There's no reason why countertenors should not sing lieder, ...

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