Filip Michalak – ‘something old but oh so new, in a great artist’s hands’
Songs from the shows indeed !But what a show with the simplicity of ‘Jesu Joy of man’s desiring’ with the strength of the tenor register giving such hope as it had done to Dame Myra in her ‘penny concerts ‘at the National Gallery during the air raids that raged in London during the war but in Filip’s hands immediately showed his credentials as an artist of refined aristocratic musicianship. Deep sonorous sounds of Busoni’s magical ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ every bit a beautiful as the performances of the much lamented Nelson Freire.