Mark PadmoreTenor Paul LewisPiano
About This Performance
“The balance between poetry and music is essential to me,” Mark Padmore told the Netherlands’ Opus Klassiek. “I don’t want people to hear this recital and think it’s just Schumann, but it’s (Heinrich) Heine as well. The poetry is wonderful and I really wish (for) people to go home and also think a little bit about Heine. To me this makes all the difference between a good performance and a most telling one.” One of the great song interpreters of our time, Mark Padmore is perfectly paired with pianist Paul Lewis. “There is in Lewis’ playing a strong physicality, a firm connection between his deep thinking about the music and his articulation of it” (Daily Telegraph).
Artist Information
Performer Biographies
Mark Padmore was born in London and studied at King’s College, Cambridge. He has established an international career in opera, concert and recital. His appearances in Bach Passions have gained particular notice, especially his renowned performances as Evangelist in the St. Matthew and St. John Passions with the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle, staged by Peter Sellars.
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire.