KIT WINDOWS-YULE is back.
This time his Worcester Festival recital wasn't at Huntingdon Hall but at the Commandery where violinist Shulah Oliver played two nights earlier.
He was his usual expressive self, with arm and hand gestures to compliment what the characters in his songs are trying to say.
La Vendetta from Le Nozze di Figaro looked every inch like the vengeance that Windows-Yule wanted Dr. Bartolo to have and I couldn’t help but experience the depth of tone in Strauss’s Zueignung. He also wandered around the floor in Oh, What a Beautiful Morning! (Rodgers and Hammerstein), something that he did not seem able to do in Huntingdon Hall with the same sense of freedom.
One niggling issue throughout the recital was the obvious sound of the electric piano in use. It was understandable to use an electric instrument rather than a grand piano given that the recital was held in the Commandery, but it did sound odd from where I sat.
Pianist Hattie Amos supports Kit Windows-Yule’s voice in her playing however; her accompaniment during the Handel’s aria O Ruddier than the Cherry was particularly lively, and she deftly adapted to the changes of character in Windows-Yule’s voice.
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