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Small, portable and zany children's opera The Fisherman and his Wife gets an accomplished outing at Tête à Tête, while Storm's Eye leaves much to be desired. 

Two strongly atmospheric pieces create and hold a dreamy, intensely imaginative note on which to finish Tête à Tête for 2015. 

Scrappy, formless and under-rehearsed, they heavily vanish didn't manage to do homage to The Tempest in the way it was originally intended. 

It is rare to find a venue where one can walk from a Cuban big band set (Orquestra Estelar) and into a performance of one of Messiaen’s most transcendental and intimate masterpieces. Rarer still for such a venue to place the latter performance next door to the former in a lecture room entirely lacking in acoustic shielding, so that any noise from outside is clearly audible.