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artists such as Gerald Moore, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, and Yannick Nézet-
Séguin have earned acclaim for their collaborations. I would say that Appl and Baillieu
are right up there.

Appl is in his ascendancy, and deserving of accolades, including mine for this week’s
Cambridge performance. His richly timbered voice lends strength and passion to his
musicality. It is easy to understand why he won the honor of the Gramophone Award
Young Artist of the Year in 2016 and has appeared in important venues throughout the
world.

We savor sonorous and depthful interpretations such as those bestowed by Appl and
Baillieu here. They are scheduled to perform Winterreise in Pittsburgh tonight and
Dallas on Sunday, perhaps escaping New England’s Eis und Schnee just in time. But I’ll
bet many listeners hope to hear their resonant pairing in person when feasible.
Julie Ingelfinger, who studied piano at the Hartt School of Music, Aspen Music Festival and
School and at Harvard, enjoys her day jobs as professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School,
pediatric nephrologist at Mass General Hospital for Children and deputy editor at the New
England Journal of Medicine.