Andrew Armstrong Pianist
I can’t get enough of the way the music and words speak to each other in Richard Strauss’s songs, sometimes at odds, sometimes complimentarily. In ‘Morgen’, it happens in such fabulous ways, with the piano and vocal line almost behaving as if they have nothing to do with each other, but they eventually line up and interweave just at the moment the words say, ‘We will be re-united.’ In my favourite recording, the comforting tenderness of baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is miraculous, and accompanist Gerald Moore is one of the greatest ever.
When I was a little boy, we’d go on family trips and my parents would put on a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. I was determined to marry
