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Hmmm.... what do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA ..a sort of 'younger and more sophisticated version of K Jenkins'?
( it puts me in mind of Thomas Beecham's put-down of Karajan as 'a sort of MUSICAL Malcolm Sargent'...
I don't think I know who she is and have no particular inclination to look her up....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Hmmm.... what do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA ..a sort of 'younger and more sophisticated version of K Jenkins'?
( it puts me in mind of Thomas Beecham's put-down of Karajan as 'a sort of MUSICAL Malcolm Sargent'...
She seeems to be still active, looking at her website - perhaps as active as she wants to be? Though some of her engagements may not be exactly headline-grabbing. An artist who has, perhaps, found her comfortable level? She married concert agent Jasper Parrott.
She seeems to be still active, looking at her website - perhaps as active as she wants to be? Though some of her engagements may not be exactly headline-grabbing. An artist who has, perhaps, found her comfortable level? She married concert agent Jasper Parrott.
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
Is it fair to include Nicola Benedetti in that list? I'm not knowledgable enough to comment on the merits of her playing (although she must be several leagues above KJ), but I don't think that she can be classified as a 'personality' - she seems to me to be a fairly modest young woman whose forays into being a 'person' rather than a 'performer' are on the whole directed at promoting music education.
Quite agree! No, she's not Ida Haendel or Anne-Sophie Mutter but I am convinced she is a serious artist who is developing as her career progresses.
Quite agree! No, she's not Ida Haendel or Anne-Sophie Mutter but I am convinced she is a serious artist who is developing as her career progresses.
And I hope she'll develop better than Anne-sophie Mutter's co-prodigy in the late 1970s/early '80s Karin Lechner, starting with a brilliant Mozart, now sometimes appearing on Brilliant (Brahms concerto 1 e.g.)
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