The Times (London) gives four stars to Richard Goode's November 7 performance with Dawn Upshaw at London's Southbank Centre. The concert was the pianist's first in a series there as artist-in-residence for the 2007–08 season. The pianist's solo work, which included an "always movingly lyrical performance" of Berg's Piano Sonata was "quite some feast." And for Upshaw, there was "a new depth and focus" in the singer's work.
In today's Times (London), writer Hilary Finch gives four stars to Richard Goode's November 7 performance with Dawn Upshaw at London's Southbank Centre. The concert was the pianist's first in a series there as artist-in-residence for the 2007–08 season.
Finch gives Goode high marks for a program in which both he and his collaborator were able to shine. The pianist's solo work, which included an "always movingly lyrical performance" of Berg's Piano Sonata, was, according to Finch, "quite some feast." And for Upshaw, the reviewer notes "a new depth and focus" in the singer's work:
The bright immediacy of her excited personal response to all she sings still burns through; but now there is both more stillness and a greater urgency in how she communicates it. Berg’s seven songs were wonder-filled, warmly shared; Schoenberg’s extraordinary cycle of poems by Stefan George a performance in which both piano and voice flexed the muscle of Schoenberg’s writing, minutely attentive to its expressions through the shifting colours of every register, every movement.
To read the full review, visit timesonline.co.uk.
