PHILIP EVE  -  Tenor and Singing Teacher

Tears and Ice in the Canterbury Festival, in October 2010
(with photographs by Melanie Ryder)

'Winterreise' consists of 24 settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller, composed in two groups in 1827. Here Schubert raises the importance of the pianist to a role equal to that of the singer, with rhythms that constantly evoke the mood of the words. Eve and Gould, having worked together for a number of years now, gave an electrifying, totally absorbing performance. I don't think I have ever been in so quiet an audience, so intense was their involvement.

The Kent Gazette - October 2010