Thursday’s RBA concert featured members of the Ensemble Studio singing German Lieder.  First up were tenor Angelo Moretti and pianist Kimly Wang with Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte.  Although this is probably the first true “song cycle” in German I feel it doesn’t get done nearly as often as the better known Schubert and Schumann cycles and it’s really pretty interesting.  I think it was also my first time hearing Angelo sing in German and he’s really very good.  This was a well articulated, rather beautifully sung set with equally skilled accompaniment. Continue reading →