Robert Hugill, Planet Hugill
Star rating: 4.5
Christine Rice incarnating two abandoned women in an evening of intimate intensity
Mezzo-soprano Christine Rice is a relatively rare visitor to London’s recital halls so it was a pleasure to be able to hear her in recital with Julius Drake for the first of Temple Music‘s Temple Song series of 2017, at Middle Temple Hall on Monday 23 January 2107. Abandoned women seemed to be the underlying theme of the programme as we opened with Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos and closed with Poulenc’s La voix humaine, in between there were Ravel’s Chants populaires and Kaddisch.
