Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin

“Every so often there’s a concert somehow so special as to banish critical reservations to the background…Such a concert was baritone Benjamin Luxon’s performance of the Schubert song-cycle, Die schöne Müllerin, presented in the Tanglewood Concert Hall last Wednesday…a performance of devastating intensity, much abetted by the strongly characterized collaboration of pianist Frederick Moyer. At the end of the concert, after the final wrench of ‘Des Baches Wiegenlied,’ there was the longest pre-applause silence I’ve ever witnessed in the concert hall.” TIMES UNION, ALBANY NY