Striking Originality
Piano music by Moscheles,
Mendelssohn and Schumann -
heard by
ROBERT ANDERSON'...Todd Crow deserves unstinted gratitude.'
|
|
Moscheles had every reason to mourn the passing of Maria Malibran at the age of twenty-eight. They had arrived in London within months of each other in 1825, when Malibran sang Rosina in Rossini's Barber. They remained in touch, and Malibran sang at a Moscheles party in the company of her second husband, the French violinist Charles de Bériot, a matter of hours after a riding accident in summer 1836 that was to kill her three months later...
Copyright © 12 September 2010
Robert Anderson,
London UK
CD INFORMATION: TODD CROW - THE BBC RECORDINGS
|
