In his first Walt Disney Concert Hall recital, the renowned harpsichordist clinks his way from Renaissance music to the recent.
The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint. But it was exquisite beyond measure.
Hearing a harpsichord, you rarely can comprehend the counterpoint unless you are the musician or you clamp on a pair of high-end electrostatic headphones and turn the volume up on a recording, which will also give all kinds of immersive percussion effects the mechanism makes.But when listening in the audience, you tend to hear the sum of the parts, not the individual parts, and that can be liberating.
The trick is to listen closely to, say, a splendidly meandering Byrd pavane without the distracting frustration of fussing over what your ears miss, because you will miss much. Esfahani is an impressive virtuoso with a taste for great speed. There were empty seats, and after intermission I moved slightly closer to the fourth row. The difference was considerable, but so was the music, Louis Andriessen’s “Overture to Orpheus.” Written for solo harpsichord in 1982, it served as a lovely tribute to the great Dutch iconoclast who died this year and who had a special love for Disney Hall .
Norge Siste Nytt, Norge Overskrifter
Similar News:Du kan også lese nyheter som ligner på denne som vi har samlet inn fra andre nyhetskilder.
How To Advocate For Yourself In Your Year-End ReviewFalse modesty is not helpful in a year-end review, but neither is vague praise.
Les mer »
Review: A porn star is reborn in the hilarious, harrowing 'Red Rocket'Simon Rex plays an adult entertainer trying to get back on his feet in this latest lower-depths odyssey from the writer-director of 'Tangerine' and 'The Florida Project.'
Les mer »
‘Company’ Broadway Review: Marianne Elliott’s Exquisite Production Is The Sondheim Tribute We NeedIf there’s a better, more vital way to honor the late, incomparable Stephen Sondheim than Marianne Elliott’s superb production of Company, Broadway hasn’t invented it. This gorgeo…
Les mer »
Netflix’s ‘Saturday Morning All Star Hits!’: TV ReviewKyle Mooney brings his earnest-but-absurd sensibility to this extended homage to '80s animation and the rituals of Saturday morning TV.
Les mer »
Review: Two documentaries distill the struggle of political dissent in China decades apartThe documentaries 'Beijing Spring' and 'Revolution of Our Times' look at the pro-democracy movement in 1970s China and contemporary Hong Kong, respectively.
Les mer »
Amazon Music wants to scrap controversial performance review systemLeaked documents show Amazon Music wants to scrap a controversial companywide performance review system that some say unfairly fires employees
Les mer »