Press | August 18, 2019
Astonishing intensity
Orfeo ed Euridice, Usher Hall, Edinburgh International Festival “Much of the most intense music-making came not from the singers but from the players of the English Concert. Labadie gave the dance of the Frenzies a startling rhythmic energy, and teased out the colours of Gluck’s wonderful score, such as the doleful sound of the two horns, as plangent as a
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