Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer; Neue Liebeslieder; Hough: Other Love Songs – review

Prince Consort/Fowke/Hough (Linn)Listening to Brahms's Liebeslieder Walzer and his Neues Liebeslieder in quick succession may be just too much of a good thing; their sentimentality and folksy charm quickly cloy, even in such fresh-toned performances by the five singers of the Prince Consort, with Philip Fowke and the group's usual pianist Alisdair Hogarth the duet accompanists. So it was a bright idea of the group to ask Stephen Hough to compose a song cycle for the same lineup to separate the...

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