Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

January 18, 2024 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, January 12 9/10 Anoushka Shankar’s music is as mellifluous and luxuriant as her name, and she’d barely played two notes when I fell under her spell once more. As with her late father, Ravi, her virtuosity on the sitar goes far beyond mere dexterity. The sound she makes…

December 24, 2023 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Riverside Theatre, December 16 7/10 If the burghers of the thriving metropolis of Esk, northwest of Ipswich, are bewildered to find their streets bereft of women with straight black hair and skirts, muted polka-dot blouses and sensible shoes, that would be because their celebrated neighbours, the Kransky Sisters, are on…

November 11, 2023 / Concert Reviews - Archive

City Recital Hall, October 31 9/10 Cecile McLorin Salvant makes us wish we were great singers, too. Even as she transports us with vocal artistry of the highest calibre, the fun factor is contagious, deployed with all the guilelessness of playing in a sandpit. Yet intertwined with the playfulness is…