Summary
After a tentative beginning with "Gute Nacht," he presented the narrator as a very young man, by turns angry, resigned, bitter, given to furious mood swings. His ferocious "Auf dem Flusse" gave way to the naked grief of "Rückblick" and the weary isolation of "Rast." [Laurent Naouri] gained power and finesse as the cycle progressed. By the last half-dozen songs he was in full command, singing nobly and with confidence. In the haunting final song, "Der Leiermann," Naouri hit exactly the right tone, mingling suspense with the longing for an uncanny partnership in song.
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Sweet Cycle
"Rich and strange." Shakespeare's phrase from The Tempest gets applied with regularity to Thomas Adès' eponymous opera. But it's a fit de...
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