8/17/2023 0 Comments Disney illuminations reviewThe acrobats and trapeze artists scrambled around a Borrowers-like set of assorted wardrobes and hoisted themselves high into the Maltings roof. It was all extremely well presented and performed. Tynan and circus artist Tiago Fonseca in Les Illuminations at the Aldeburgh festival. It involved a circus troupe, as well as soprano Sarah Tynan and the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon. The Aldeburgh festival had launched the previous evening with the first performance of Illuminations, the specially commissioned theatrical entertainment devised around Britten’s Rimbaud song cycle Les Illuminations by director and choreographer Struan Leslie. There was none of the manufactured hard gloss that modern orchestras often apply to the score. There was no wordless chorus for this performance, but the textures – from the reedy bassoons and rasping trombones adding bite and menace to the grotesqueries of Dorcon’s dance in part one to the elegant flute solos that launched the final Bacchanale and the perfectly weighted string tone throughout the work – never obscured a single detail and always had a sense of rightness. Playing this music on the instruments on which it would have first been heard in Paris may not seem to make a huge difference from how we usually hear it today, but the effect was telling in the revealing acoustic of Snape Maltings. ![]() ![]() French repertory from the turn of the 20th century, especially works such as Ravel’s score that were commissioned for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, has become one of Roth’s specialities with this orchestra.
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