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| | Tippett, Schubert, Wolf: Mark Padmore, Roger Vignoles, Wigmore Hall, Monday June 3rd 2002. (ME) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Tippett’s ‘Boyhood’s End’ is not the easiest piece with which to launch a recital, with its cantata style and dramatically varying sentiments, but Padmore and Vignoles rose to most of the challenges, with only the more florid, Purcellian lines proving a little anxious for the tenor. |
 | | Vignoles’ performance of Wolf’s most challenging postludes was sheer joy; the whirling, stomping or reeling phrases, sometimes dancing, sometimes drunken, were played with the sort of élan that makes you want to stand up and cheer, and Padmore rightly recognized this. |
 | | The hall was only half full on this Bank Holiday Monday, but the reception given was genuinely warm, and was rewarded with a beautiful performance of Wolf’s setting of ‘Ganymed,’ an appropriate conclusion since we had heard Schubert’s version earlier in the programme. |
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