Tuesday, December 06, 2011

News at Eleven (Back Page): [Ian Bostridge's] partner at the piano,

the composer Thomas Adès, provided more than accompaniment. [Robert] Schumann's selection of 16 poems from [Heinrich] Heine's "Lyric Intermezzo," the Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) Op. 48, gives the piano an unusually independent voice, including several extended postludes. Adès exercises a preternatural degree of control at the keyboard--his pianissimo trills sound like a muffled electric bell--and he switched seamlessly between restrained backing for Bostridge and boisterous renderings of the piano music.

from Tablet: Poem Love

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