Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

August 28, 2024 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Goethe-Institut, August 9 8/10 Flying is miraculous not because of altitude, speed, precision or aerodynamics, but because of earth and gravity. So in creating music to celebrate birds and flight, Matthew Ottignon ensured that airiness and velocity are only part of the equation: he also often grounds the music in…

July 19, 2024 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, July 7 9/10 Zakir Hussain’s hands don’t play the heads of his tabla, they dance upon them. The emergent rhythms, melodies and textures are as deep and mysterious as the music of the ancients, as sophisticated as the most complex composed music, and as innovative…

May 14, 2024 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, May 11 9/10 Some talented kid could mimic Audra McDonald; could maybe catch the incandescence of her soprano range and the huskiness warming the edges of her chest voice. They might even replicate the translucence of her softest high notes, and the earthiness of her lowest ones. But…