(Photo: Sussie Ahlburg)
Hilary Finch at Wigmore Hall [Times Online, 2 March 2006]

Things that go bump in the night, and the dark underside of the Romantic imagination: that’s what obsessed the poet Joseph von Eichendorff. And the musicality of his verse magicked the minds of composers such as Schumann, Brahms and Wolf, all of whom were on show in the recital by the soprano Kate Royal on Tuesday.