Sparkling Performances

Yvonne Kenny and Iain Burnside
at London's Wigmore Hall,
appreciated by ROBERT HUGILL

Yvonne Kenny's new recital programme, One Touch of Venus, exists in that difficult shadow world between cabaret entertainment and full-blown recital. Kenny's raison d'être was 'to present a song recital which was more adventurous and more varied than the usual format -- more like and entertainment or a show'. But few shows include songs by Reynaldo Hahn, Robert Schumann, Ernest Chausson, Henry Purcell or George Frideric Handel.

It helps, of course, that Kenny has for her accompanist the multi-talented Iain Burnside who, as a broadcaster as well as an accompanist, is adept at assembling programmes.

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