The Passion of Mary Magdalene – The Scotsman Review
★★★★
David Kettle The Scotsman
‘It was a work to prod and provoke, and to inspire, in a performance so committed and convincing it’s hard to imagine a finer one.’
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Acis and Galatea – The Scotsman Review
★★★★★
David Kettle, The Scotsman
‘A wonderfully buoyant, tender account, and one full of authentic emotion…a bittersweet joy from start to finish.’
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Messiah – The Scotsman Review
★★★★★
David Kettle, The Scotsman
‘This was a fresh, searching Messiah, brisk and vivid, and delivered as if its ink was still wet.’
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Ich habe genug – The Scotsman Review
★★★★★
Fiona Shepherd, The Scotsman
“Nothing short of perfection…. A truly moving and beautiful disc.”
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How Lonely Sits the City – Online Broadcast – The Scotsman Review
David Kettle, The Scotsman
★★★★★
“… this is a considered, thoughtful concert, captured in CD-quality sound, that feels consoling and inspiring in equal measure.”
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Samson – The Scotsman Review
Ken Walton, The Scotsman
★★★★★
This is another John Butt spectacular, the ensemble’s effervescent director eliciting a performance that captures the emotion of Handel’s exceptional writing…
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Requiem Aeternam – The Scotsman Review
David Kettle, The Scotsman
★★★★★
An exceptional evening of music, deeply thoughtful, compassionate and nourishing.
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Lammermuir Festival – Prestongrange Church – The Scotsman Review
Ken Walton, The Scotsman
★★★★★
Joy, passion and precision… it was as though Butt and his players were rediscovering this well-known music afresh all over again, and taking their listeners with them
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Bach Harpsichord Concertos – Edinburgh International Festival – Scotsman Review
Susan Nickalls, The Scotsman
★★★★★
To hear Bach played on an instrument from the world-class collection at St Cecilia’s Hall offers a privileged glimpse into how the composer’s music might have sounded at the time.
…Suzuki’s hands moved seamlessly between the two manuals adding to the drama of this richly scored work. The accompanying period instruments produced a lively orchestral sound centred around the dynamic viola interactions with the harpsichord.
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Scotsman Interview
Interview with Chief Executive Jo Buckley in The Scotsman.
The ensemble is thinking big according to new chief executive Jo Buckley, who is honest enough to suggest that the 2018 scare “was actually one of the best things that happened to us.” Whereas two years ago Dunedin were playing around 25 concerts a year, there will be 40 performances this season. “We’re not just back to where we were, but the scale of activity has increased enormously,” says Buckley.
The new season brochure says it all. On the cover, a flautist plays precariously on top of Salisbury Crags. Elsewhere violinist Sarah Bevan-Baker is pictured jetting off Calton Hill like Superwoman. Stephan Farr attempts to stem the Atlantic waves at Calgary Bay on Mull, Canute-style, with a part-submerged harpsichord.
Bach Harpsichord Concertos 5 – Edinburgh International Festival – The Scotsman
Carol Main, The Scotsman
★★★★
Possibly, for a concerto soloist, the only thing worse than breaking your glasses just before heading to the platform, is finding out that the glue used to fix them hasn’t worked.
Even in the face of such adversity, the show went on at St Cecilia’s Hall on Tuesday with harpsichordist Richard Egarr valiantly leading instrumentalists of the Dunedin Consort from the solo seat in Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in E major.
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