For a period of the 20th Century, due to his talent and association with Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears was perhaps the world’s most famous classical singer. Pears inspired Britten to create great works of art precisely because Pears was a compelling artist with an exceptional voice, an inquisitive mind, a knowledge of art, history, literature and poetry. They became a self-perpetuating duo, inspiring each other to even greater heights of artistry, technical ability, and emotional certainty. This album of works by Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Richard Rodney Bennett and Geoffrey Bush is performed by tenor Robin Tritschler, who is joined by cellist Philip Higham, guitarist Sean Shibe and pianist Malcolm Martineau.
Praise for Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau:
★★★★★ Performance, ★★★★★ Recording “[The artists] give the music a strong perspective of their own. With lyrical penetration, technical sovereignty, strong expressiveness and great clarity in both small and large details, they convey the music in the best possible way” – FONO FORUM
★★★★ Performance, ★★★★ Recording
“Robin Tritschler’s sweet-toned voice is a continual delight, as is Malcolm Martineau’s sparkling, pearly, luminous piano sound” – BBC Music Magazine
★★★★ “In the opening song and throughout the album one can hear the burnished tone and immaculate diction of Tritschler’s beautifully focused and projected light tenor and, as always, Malcolm Martineau’s piano playing is superb.” – Classical Source
THE BEST CLASSICAL ALBUMS OF 2024 “This is a powerful and rewarding release. The music, mostly accompanied by the excellent pianist Malcolm Martineau, is uniformly strong…I listened with plenty of pleasure, buoyed by Tritschler’s intelligence, the music, and its multiple shades of feeling” – The Times