A curiously brief review from Morrison.
Watched/listened last night: it may well have come across better than in the hall itself.
Not as powerful a performance as others I've heard, but a very moving one.
A shame that the soprano soloist's music stand was so low: she was having to look down at it while singing, which was not a good stance on the TV.
Overall, I thought the camera angles and shots not the best: all a bit fussy, whereas keeping static might have been better.
The boys' singing was a little more staccato than usual, so with a loss of flow to their lines, but perhaps that was to counter the acoustic in the hall.
I thought that the two male soloists in their 'Let us sleep now' interchange were absolutely ideal, as indeed they were in the parable (Abraham and Isaac) section: the way that gets launched from the preceding Latin (quam olim Abrahae) section is surely a stroke of genius on Britten's part.
Watched/listened last night: it may well have come across better than in the hall itself.
Not as powerful a performance as others I've heard, but a very moving one.
A shame that the soprano soloist's music stand was so low: she was having to look down at it while singing, which was not a good stance on the TV.
Overall, I thought the camera angles and shots not the best: all a bit fussy, whereas keeping static might have been better.
The boys' singing was a little more staccato than usual, so with a loss of flow to their lines, but perhaps that was to counter the acoustic in the hall.
I thought that the two male soloists in their 'Let us sleep now' interchange were absolutely ideal, as indeed they were in the parable (Abraham and Isaac) section: the way that gets launched from the preceding Latin (quam olim Abrahae) section is surely a stroke of genius on Britten's part.
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