MUSIC
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019
4:00 PM

Beth Anne Hatton & Brian Mountford: Beyond the Fair
Vertical Player Repertory
Behind the Door
219 Court Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

$15
https://mailchi.mp/vpropera.org/gmwv35kf6k-3012881?e=e8677ccc95

This song recital simply has an incredibly appealing playlist. From the sheer German Romantic sublimity of Schubert and Schumann (I can take or leave most of his piano pieces — but his songs . . . .) to the late Romantic complications of Schoenberg and Sibelius to the hyper-sophisticated simplicity of Satie (when Barbara Hannigan did a set of Satie and a set of Schoenberg and his crew at the Armory last year, it occurred to me that now, a century after the fact, Satie has pretty decisively prevailed — and I'm happy for it) and Mompou (the Catalán Satie) to the post-Fauré 20th Century obscurity of Beydts (you are not readily going to get another chance to hear his stuff) to the forthright American neo-Romanticism of Barber. List bud Brian Mountford on piano!

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