Prom 50: Sunday 21st August at 7.00 p.m. (Britten, Matthews, Mozart)

[Stunsworth]

...but the out-of-tune-piano and the grammophone recordings are IMO balancing dangerously on the verge of kitschy gadgets

I have to disagree. I listened again to it this afternoon and was moved just as much as the other night. I thought the effect of singing 'against' the old recordings was like a bad dream where everything almost fits together but never does. Perhaps nightmare is a better word than dream.

[Pianophile]

I found the Colin Matthews piece unbearably moving in the hall, with excellent contributions from the soloists. I certainly didn't find their vibrato obtrusive. The soprano soloist in the Mozart was however another matter. One misses the qualities of a Margaret Price here. It did indeed seem odd to have the four soloist space so far apart on the platform.

[Chris Newman]

I found the Colin Matthews piece unbearably moving in the hall, with excellent contributions from the soloists. I certainly didn't find their vibrato obtrusive. The soprano soloist in the Mozart was however another matter. One misses the qualities of a Margaret Price here. It did indeed seem odd to have the four soloist space so far apart on the platform.

Sadly, as the Welsh would say, when God created Margaret Price he lost the mould.