CLASSICAL: Melodramas Wigmore Hall, London

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 8, 1997| Author: Antony Peattie | Copyright information

This concert devoted to "dramatic works for narrator and piano" as one of the enterprising Stephan Zweig series was sparsely attended. Did it look too high-minded? It began on a low note: "Moonshine, shine; Let me see my twine." Not even the versatile Prunella Scales could save this twaddle, the opening of Fibich's The Water Goblin, translated by Deryck Viney. Fibich illustrated the text: the piano rippled when the narrator described the surface of the water, and rocked when prompted by a ...

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