Padmore/Davies/Drake – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonAlthough written as separate pieces over a span of 27 years, Benjamin Britten's Five Canticles are more often performed as a single cycle. Capturing Britten at his musically practical and personal best, these chamber vocal pieces formed a natural opening for the first wave of the Wigmore Hall's celebrations of the composer's centenary.The Canticles are such concentrated works that, rather like Bach's Goldberg Variations, they need no companions in the programme. That's especi...

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