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

A Midsummer meditation mix from the SCO Chorus

David Smythe, 20th June

The SCO Chorus in a meditative mood for midsummer in music by Glass, Taverner, MacMillan and Duruflé.

****1

From Florence to Venice: an Italian tour with Renato Dolcini

Sandra Bowdler, 18th June

The impressive Italian baritone features in a tour of Renaissance and Baroque Italian works with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Melbourne.

****1

Black American music finds a new voice at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 18th June

Dutch premieres, new faces and new arrangements result in a concert quite unlike any other from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Antony Hermus.

****1

Orozco-Estrada, Bruce Liu and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 18th June

Vivid, full-bodied Tchaikovsky, passionate without losing its grammar, on a persuasive night for the KBS Symphony Orchestra.

****1

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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”.