Rivetting performances (From This Is Wiltshire)

Rivetting performances

2:28pm Tuesday 30th June 2009 in

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Violin, saxophone, trumpet and piano produce a dramatic sound effect: Add a narrator with a voice that can coerce with her rich European timbre or instil foreboding with clipped crystalline consonants and there is a basis for high drama.

I rather felt this was work in progress. The first half of two Liszt pieces, Wagner and Grieg could well be edited, tightened up.

Enter the second half with Karol Szymanowski and John Casken’s Deadly Pleasures and it was a different world.

Johanna Lonsky is a riveting narrator. She speaks with voice, eyes and hands, every word enunciated, consonants fired, vowels long and savoured.

It all added up to a highly charged theatrical performance.