Michel van der Aa “Up-close” and personal at White Light Festival

Par Rebecca Lentjes, 30 octobre 2013

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Critique faite à Manhattan Center: Grand Ballroom, New York, le 28 octobre 2013

van der Aa, Memo for violin and tape recorder

van der Aa, Oog for cello and tape

van der Aa, Transit for piano and video projection

van der Aa, Up-Close, concerto for solo cello, strings and video (US premiere)

Kaori Yamagami, Violoncelle

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

International Contemporary Ensemble

David Bowlin, Violon

Michael Nicolas, Violoncelle

Jacob Greenberg, Piano

Orpheus CO and Vengerov deliver superb Mozart at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 7th November

The star violinist and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra bring their two-night traversal of Mozart’s complete works for violin and orchestra to a stunning conclusion.

****1

Orpheus’ musicians play with restrained romanticism

Edward Sava-Segal, 10th October

One of the most charming attributes of Montgomery's Strum is the way different individual voices rise from and fall back into a seductively colored sound canopy.

****1

Orpheus performs string sextets on top of a car park in New Jersey

Edward Sava-Segal, 3rd October

The players demonstrated again the unity of an impromptu ensemble, although made up of instrumentalists that have played numerous times together.

****1

No conductor? No problem at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 21st May

Less is more in a brilliant performance by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and star soloist Jan Lisiecki at Prague Spring.

****1

Montgomery première shines among the classics

Rebecca Lentjes, 27th October

During Jessie Montgomery's Records from a Vanishing City, musical styles from avant-garde jazz to Angolan lullabies quarreled and overlapped, keeping our ears pricked for the duration of the piece.

***11

After a deluge, Bach

Timothy Robson, 27th August

A strong thunderstorm delayed the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Blossom Music Center debut, but despite their fine playing, the venue proved too large.

***11

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Rebecca Lentjes

Rebecca graduated from New York University in 2012, where she studied Music and Romance Languages. She now works as an assistant editor at RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) and as manager of contemporary music collective ensemble mise-en.