In Memoriam: Jon Vickers

A characteristically individual account, only for specialists of the singer or the cycle as it’s an operatic, sometimes alarming reading. Interesting interview disc too.

Michael Tanner

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3

Michael Tanner

Published: October 13, 2016 at 2:23 pm

COMPOSERS: Franz Schubert
LABELS: Warner
ALBUM TITLE: In Memoriam: Jon Vickers
WORKS: Schubert: Winterreise; plus Jon Vickers in conversation with Jon Tolansky
PERFORMER: Jon Vickers (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: Warner 2564603157 (1983/97)

A characteristically individual account, only for specialists of the singer or the cycle as it’s an operatic, sometimes alarming reading. Interesting interview disc too.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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