{"id":684,"date":"2016-12-16T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renepape.wpengine.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2017-05-13T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T00:17:49","slug":"the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/2016\/12\/16\/the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Wigmore Hall debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it was clear we were all in the presence of a great artist &#8230; Pape and Radicke saved the best till last and excelled in Mussorgsky\u2019s Pesni i pljaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death). Yes, death once again! &#8230; \u2018Kol\u00efbelnaya\u2019 (Lullaby) was energetic and deceptively soothing despite its subject matter of Death coming for a young child. In \u2018Serenada\u2019 the serenade is that of Death singing at the window of a young girl who is asleep and Pape\u2019s characterisation was hauntingly redolent of her impending fate. The next was a folk dance, \u2018Trepak\u2019 and he snarled malevolently as Death enshrouds a weary, old peasant in a blanket of snow &#8230; Pape brought out all the horrors of Mussorgsky\u2019s scene painting by communicating everything simply through just voice and phrasing \u2026 and not forgetting his consummate artistry &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0Jim Pritchard,\u00a0Seen and Heard International<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it was clear we were all in the presence of a great artist &#8230; Pape and Radicke saved the best till last and excelled in Mussorgsky\u2019s Pesni i pljaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death). Yes, death once again! &#8230; \u2018Kol\u00efbelnaya\u2019 (Lullaby) was energetic and deceptively soothing despite its subject matter of Death coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acclaim","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}