Link to the Show / Show Notes"Playing for singers is something completely different to playing other chamber music – they demand a special way of being supported - this is instinctive and can’t be learnt. "
Charles Spencer is one of the world’s most sought-after accompanists. He is renowned for his lied interpretation and has accompanied distinguished singers the likes of Jessye Norman, Thomas Quasthoff and Peter Schreier, and for over a decade, was the pianist of the renowned mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, until she retired in 1994.
Charles Spencer is Professor of Lied Interpretation for singers and pianists at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt and gives regular masterclasses in Austria, Germany, Japan, Iceland and Israel.
In this week’s Inspired Minds - the first of two special programmes - Charles Spencer talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the perceptive art of accompanying, how he came to know and love the German language and his life as an "unashamed accompanist".
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