Hard boiled Hermann
Benedikt Andrews directs Pique Dame in Munich (****) [live]
As a director, there is no getting around the fact that Hermann is a tragic hero and that he enjoys the composer's sympathy. In the closing bars, after Hermann's impulsive suicide, such an incredible tristesse can be heard in the orchestra that it is inevit…
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