Bon voyage, Brigitte – a farewell recital
Brigitte Heuser arrived on the platform looking elegant and beautiful. She began her programme with Mahler’s Lieder eine fahrenden gesellen. These lovely and varied songs were sung very well; the fourth, ‘Die zwei blauen Augen’ particularly, was given a heartfelt rendition. There was not, perhaps, sufficient variety of tone in the other songs. One certainly misses the variety and subtlety of the orchestra, but Catherine Norton accompanied superbly It... read more