At Dallas’ Moody Performance Hall, the songs’ grief and anger, frustration and resignation were vividly evoked.
That’s how it was for me with Sunday afternoon’s performance of Schubert’s great song cycle. Presented in the Dallas Opera’s Titus Family Recital series, at Moody Performance Hall, German baritone Benjamin Appl and British based pianist James Baillieu dug into the doomed winter traveler’s very nerve endings.
Near the end of his far too short life, already shadowed by illness, Schubert is also the master of subtle but telling pianistic gestures. The opening trudges set the traveler on his wintry way. Notes blown this way and that evoke a weathervane, a metaphor for the traveler’s turbulent emotions. Finally, we hear the drone and repetitive twiddling of a hurdy-gurdy, its pathetic player lost in his own world, ignored by all around him. Rarely have so few notes made hopelessness so visceral.
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