Chi-chi Nwanoku
Richard Morrison
July 23, 2018
Concert review: Triple Concert at Castle Howard, Yorkshire [5 Stars]
Glynn’s ingenious vision had three ensembles performing simultaneously three times, with the audience moving between them
For me, however, the highlight came in the Long Gallery, where Chi-chi
Nwanoku’s Chineke! — here transformed into a nine-piece outfit — played
two rarities with dazzling elan.
The first was Franz Hasenöhrl’s audacious arrangement for just six instruments of Strauss’s vast orchestral tone-poem Till Eulenspiegl.
It shouldn’t work but, bizarrely, does. That was followed by the Nonet
written by the black British Victorian composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Ardent and tuneful, it loses its way occasionally, but fully deserved
this spirited resuscitation.
Ryedale Festival (ryedalefestival.com) runs to July 29
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