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LISA MILNE BRITTEN On This Island Graham Johnson, piano Wigmore Hall 2006

BRITTEN: ON THIS ISLAND Lisa Milne, acc. Graham Johnson Wigmore Hall 3 December 2006 0:00:07 Let the florid music praise 0:03:43 Now the leaves are falling fast 0:05:39 Seascape 0:07:29 Nocturne 0:11.24 As it is, plenty Lisa Milne launched this recital with a most convincing performance of Britten’s first song-cycle – “On this Island”. Her ample soprano lent radiance to the composer’s glittering realisations of sometimes – and typically – intractable lines from W. H. Auden. Swiss soprano Sophie Wyss was the first exponent of this music and, on the evidence of recordings, had a less fulsome tone than Lisa Milne commands. But Milne projected words and musical lines fearsomely and with utter credibility. How startling this music must have seemed in 1937 to audiences used to, shall one say, the ‘pastoral’ character of contemporary – and earlier – British song-writing. (Timothy Ball, ClassicalSource)