Christopher Maltman and Graham Johnson – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonChristopher Maltman opened the new Wigmore season with a powerhouse recital of Schiller settings by Schubert, Schuman and Liszt. The task he and pianist Graham Johnson set themselves was not an easy one. Schiller's influence on music was vast, famously triggering, among other things, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Brahms's Nänie, and operas by Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. Song composers, however, found his philosophical range and anti-authoritarian politics difficult to contai...

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