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- Peter Bleby
There have been many single handers in recent years – all done excellently, with talent, creativity and salient messages. But this one stands out from them all.
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- Nicholas Routley
There is no doubt that the three programs presented by the Ensemble Pygmalion were the sensation of this year’s Adelaide Festival.
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- Nicholas Routley
Going from that show to Mary said what she said was like going from a Mozart piano concerto to one of the more repetitive pieces by Philip Glass.
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- Nicholas Routley
The whole work is a testament to Shostakovich’s constant battle with the thought police of the Soviet regime which dogged him throughout his life.
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- Nicholas Routley
We are given, not a survey of her life, but rather a glimpse into Baker’s psyche.
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- Nicholas Routley
There is no denying the dramatic force of these sonatas, and there is drama in spades in Mustonen’s renderings.
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- Nicholas Routley
A modern re-working of Chekhov’s play of the same name, perhaps comparable to Bernstein’s re-working of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story.
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- Nicholas Routley
The whole show was one in which technical wizardry was wholly at the service of delighting, provoking, or astonishing the audience.
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There have been many single handers in recent years – all done excellently, with talent, creativity and salient messages. But this one stands out from them all.
There is no doubt that the three programs presented by the Ensemble Pygmalion were the sensation of this year’s Adelaide Festival.