CLASSICAL REVIEW: Hilliard Ensemble
Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity
I’m on the road south. I recall from my youth a smug little Northern Irish quip that you could always tell when you were in Northern Ireland because of the roads. You still can but for the opposite reason nowadays. For safety [...]
The Irish Times Review Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Hilliard Ensemble St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk
There’s a conventional wisdom that the repertoire of the mainstream classical concert has become too narrow. And it’s certainly the case that the body of work from Bach to the late romantics is as hugely popular with audiences as it is with leading performers [...]
Gramophone describes A Place Between as “a beautifully understated recording”.
Reviews Fri, Oct 02, 2009
MICHAEL DERVAN reviews Sacred Songs of Valentyn Silvestrov
Sacred Songs of Valentyn Silvestrov St Peter’s, Drogheda
Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov was the subject of a portrait concert presented by the Louth Contemporary Music Society on Thursday. It was, in essence, not so much a portrait as a self-portrait. Silvestrov was [...]
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