This fourth volume in our scholarly compendium once more charts Liszt’s life through song (including three settings spanning as many decades of a portentous love-letter the composer received in 1841). Series maestro Julius Drake welcomes the gorgeous Sasha Cooke to Hyperion.
‘Cooke is very much alert to [the later songs] introversion and sadness. The way she encompasses small gradations in volume over a relatively narrow dynamic range impresses, while Drake makes every ch ...
BBC Music Magazine
Limelight, Australia
BBC Music Magazine Limelight, Australia