PHILIP EVE  -  Tenor and Singing Teacher

 

 

In Fond Memory in the Old Synagogue, in March 2007

Art Song is a tricky beast.  Its interpretation requires all the drama of the operatic repertoire, whilst remembering this is chamber music, where less really is more.  This balance between the innate theatricality of the songs themselves, and the need of artists to 'interpret', was evident on Saturday evening, as Eve and Gould demonstrated a virtuosic synthesis between singer and pianist.  Saturday's concert was a loving reminder of why we treasure chamber music, and that we are lucky to have two such accomplished artists to bring it to us.

Love Imagined - Love Remembered in the Canterbury Music Club Season, in January 2007

in Schumann's Liederkreis Op. 39... all the qualities one has come to expect from Eve and Gould were there in abundance - faultless vocal technique, idiomatic diction and beautiful tone together with minute attention to details of phrasing and balance. In der Fremde in particular was superbly balanced, as good a performance as I've ever heard. Mondnacht's soft and high vocal line, that most exacting of vocal demands, was beautifully sung, the piano transparent and accurate in every detail. The fragmented counterpoint of Auf einer Burg, taken at a slow but absolutely perfect tempo sounded like coloured jewels in the old church acoustic. These were performances that drew the listener irresistibly into Schumann's Romantic, melancholy and magical world.

 

You can read reviews here of their concerts from October 2005 to October 2006, or return to the Performance page.