16 Mar 2005

Per Questa Bella Mano at the Barbican

You don’t expect absurdity in a concert of Mozart arias and instrumental music, but in bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff’s concert with the period-instrument Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the highlight was a work of Pythonesque weirdness.


Constanze Mozart

Quasthoff/FBO

Barbican, London

Tom Service [The Guardian, 15 Mar 05]

You don't expect absurdity in a concert of Mozart arias and instrumental music, but in bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff's concert with the period-instrument Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the highlight was a work of Pythonesque weirdness.

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