Bach unwrapped through brass: Onyx Brass at Kings Place

Par Julia Savage, 09 mai 2013

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Critique faite à Kings Place: Hall One, Londres, le 3 mai 2013

Chostakovitch, Prélude et Fugue en sol majeur, Op.87 no. 3

Bach, Prélude et Fugue en sol majeur, BWV541 (Arr. Maynard)

Bach, Le Clavier bien tempéré (1): Prélude et Fugue no. 1 en ut majeur, BWV846 (Arr. Shute)

Chostakovitch, Prélude et Fugue en la bémol majeur, Op.87 no. 17 (Arr. Miller)

Cohen, Concertino

Chostakovitch, Prélude et Fugue en la bémol majeur, Op.87 no. 17 (Arr. Thomson)

Bach, Le Clavier bien tempéré (1): Prélude et Fugue no. 17 en la bémol majeur, BWV862

Haendel, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74: Eternal Source of Light Divine (Arr. Shute)

Bach, Le Clavier bien tempéré (1): Prélude et Fugue no. 5 en ré majeur, BWV850 (Arr. Keatley)

Chostakovitch, Prélude et Fugue en ré majeur, Op.87 no. 5 (Arr. Miller)

Duddell, Still Life

Jackson, Anything But

Bach, Toccata et Fugue en ré mineur, BWV565 (Arr. Mills)

Bach, Fantaisie chromatique et fugue en ré mineur, BWV903 (Arr. Miller)

Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - chorale prelude in G Minor, BWV659 (Arr. Powell)

Onyx Brass

Niall Keatley, Trompette

Brian Thomson, Trompette

Andrew Sutton, Cor

Amos Miller, Trombone

David Gordon Shute, Tuba

Onyx Brass: Tour de Brass reaches Durham

Jane Shuttleworth, 12th July

Brass chamber music may sound like an alarming oxymoron until you hear the warm sound of Onyx Brass, who brought their Tour de Brass programme to Auckland Castle as part of Durham's annual BRASS festival.

****1

La traviata's dazzling return to Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour

Chantal Nguyen, 26th March

Fireworks, party boats, Violetta swooping from a giant chandelier: soprano Stacey Alleaume triumphs in this magnificent restaging of Francesca Zambello's spectacular waterfront La traviata.

****1

Kang Wang makes a striking Opera Australia debut in La bohème

Chantal Nguyen, 2nd January

Gale Edwards' popular revival, set in the 1930s Weimar Republic, brings visual delight and showcases Australian-Chinese tenor Kang Wang as Rodolfo.

****1

West Side Story: A Manhattan Juke-Box on Sydney Harbour

Chantal Nguyen, 23rd March

For the first time, a musical comes to the outdoor stage of the annual Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.

****1

Seven fantasies replace seven veils

Zoltán Szabó, 6th March

Gale Edwards' Opera Australia staging of Richard Strauss' bloody opera is revived with Lise Lindstrom in the title role.

****1

Opera Australia revives its Berlin Bohème

Patricia Maunder, 7th November

A fine cast led by Maija Kovalevska conveys the timeless beauty and emotion of Puccini’s Parisian melodrama, but the 1930s Berlin setting remains an imperfectly realised transformation.

***11

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Julia Savage

Julia works behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey as a PA. Outside of her job, she sings with a variety of ensembles in London and further afield, and undertakes freelance editorial and writing projects – from concert programmes to tasting notes.