Mullova Ensemble: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

Press

• Transfigured Night

  Turner Sims Concert Hall

  Oct 2023

  • The players responded to the work’s rapture with demonstrable affection, at one point Mullova and Mönkemeyer playing in unison, exquisitely capturing the moment of reconciliation. Thereafter, the work’s radiant lyricism soared with an unequivocal fervour, the final section now suffused with an iridescent glow, compassion explicit.

    • Bachtrack
    • 20 October 2023

• Transfigured Night

  Milton Court, London

  Oct 2023

  • A fascinating idea The music that precedes the full Verklärte Nacht certainly contains some jewels – Mullova’s typically elegant, sculpted performances of solo-violin Bach (the Double from the B minor Partita and the Adagio from the G minor Sonata) and a feisty group of Bartók’s Duo for two violins, in which she is joined by Lisa Rieder, as well as the third movement of Janáček’s Second String Quartet, Intimate Letters, which conjures up parallels with Schoenberg’s score

    • The Guardian
    • 19 October 2023

  • ...a compelling and very successful programme, setting the scene for and reaching its conclusion in an outstanding account of Verklärte Nacht in which the six players breathed as one, projecting the inner voices expressively and reflecting every nuance of both score and poem... The six players breathed as one during this work... Interspersed were dance sequences imaginatively choreographed by Joshua Junker and gracefully executed by Ching-Ying Chien – some of her contortions had to be seen to be believed.

    • Evening Standard
    • 19 October 2023