A brand new orchestra: The Enigma Orchestra at St George's Bristol

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 05 December 2012

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 2 December 2012

Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Overture

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K466

Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92

Enigma Orchestra

Robert Weaver, Conductor

Arian Aghababaie, Piano

Sea pictures and Enigmas (but no Elgar): Enigma Orchestra at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 6th April

I doubt many of us have been to the seaside recently. Even if Bristolians had braved the cold and wet and wind, I’m sure that the mudflats of Brean or the arcades of Weston-super-Mare were a far cry from the visions of that mysterious body of saltwater conjured up by the Enigma Orchestra in their second ever concert at St George’s.

***11

Sea pictures and Enigmas (but no Elgar): Enigma Orchestra at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 6th April

***11

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.