Bernarda Fink – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThough the group of composers highlighted in this Wigmore series (Ravel and his contemporaries Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Fauré and Debussy) had their share of personal tensions, this initial programme – consisting of works composed between the 1870s and the 1920s – showed their stylistic links. All five belonged to a characteristically French tradition that valued elegance above emphatic statement: their concern for the natural rhythms of the French language gave an under...

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