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‘The audience was fully in the power of Keenlyside and Martineau as soon as they began their cornucopia of Schubert songs,’ writes Hilary Finch in the sleeve notes for the baritone’s latest Wigmore Hall Live disc (WHLive0031)..gif)
And this week, your free download is the first of the group of Schubert songs on the CD, ‘An Silvia’. Recorded live in 2008, Simon Keenlyside and Malcolm Martineau’s recital disc brings together songs by Schubert, Wolf, Fauré and Ravel.
‘The opening Schubert group demonstrates the baritone’s natural and unaffected delivery – an ability to hold words and notes together in one single gesture,’ says critic George Hall in the December issue of BBC Music Magazine. ‘It’s all there.’