Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing

Charlston/Kynoch (BIS) Schumann’s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch; Heloise Werner’s new work Knight’s Dream is a rich and intriguing companion piece Helen Charlston is a strikingly original talent on stage, so it should come as no surprise that her latest recital on disc pushes into unexpected territory. At its heart is Dichterliebe, Robert Schumann’s classic cycle on poems by Heinrich Heine, and still relatively unusual terrain for ...

By Clive Paget