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Jung Soo Yun - Richard Tauber Prize recital, with Joseph Middleton A recital in two parts; we nearly left after the first, because this tenor's songs from Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Richard Strauss' Opus 10 were so lack-lustre that one fell to wondering about this prize and its Society, which provided only a small audience at Wigmore Hall. The tone was dry and unlovely and his posture was not encouraging, with a right hand clutching the frame of the piano nervously and continuously for the full half hour. After necessary refreshment Yun returned another man Richard Tauber's Dein ist mein ganzes Herz paid due tribute to a favourite tenor of my youth, marking the last Richard Tauber Prize in its present format. Peter Grahame Woolf See a more sympathetic review at http://www.planethugill.com/2013/07/jung-soo-yun-richard-tauber-  prize.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PlanetHugill+%28Planet+Hugill%29 |
and another singer, with a bright open operatic tenor, obviously more comfortable in Tosti ballads, native Korean folk songs, and decent accounts of Gounod and Tchaikovsky arias than in German lieder & French chansons; the latter selection also enlivening Joseph Middleton's always accomplished accompaniments.