The Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation has inaugurated its significant season that coincides with the centenary of the great Catalan soprano with a quality proposal that also looks to the future, since its protagonists are young singers with an exciting career judging by their virtues.
The session began with (New Artists) the baritone Milan Perisic (timbre, power, expository clarity) and the pianist Quimey Urquiaga in an ascending program in terms of showing their possibilities, focused on Vaughan Williams and Fauré.
And they were followed by the trio, of stupendous quality and already of solvency, of Labourdette, Kilsby and Lahiri in which soprano and tenor did a duet of songs from the romantic repertoire with very good taste and adjustment, even expressive as well as small samples of the very lyrical repertoire. little frequented.
And the substantial part of the program was the second. The popularized Cervantine saying is contradicted here, since from Poulenc’s Two Poems of Louis Aragon (exquisite by Laurence Kilsby), the affinity of the singers’ repertoire grew, alternating with Kilsby who embroidered Britten’s Folksongs with diction and subtle meaning, which They showed the true relevance of the small pieces, with Natalia Labourdette, who shone in sensitivity in three Mozart songs (K523, 520 and 472), showing her stylistic capacity, the good use of her enormous possibilities (which in the Strauss of the first part of it led us to think about the need to soften the treble) and that at the end of the program he remembered the excellent Manuel García Morante who had so much to do with the career of the celebrated Victoria, with two of his traditional Catalan Cançons; all with the applauded collaboration of pianist Kunal Lahiri
A great success for this beginning of the season, with the presence of many of the Foundation’s collaborators who make this activity possible (and whose names appear in the program) to whom we must thank their generosity so well used by the Foundation.
