There are few surprises lurking in the brother-and-sister duo’s latest show.
Angus & Julia Stone would make a great Angus & Julia Stone covers band. They are already halfway there, with a very Angus & Julia take on Neil Young’sfor the encore and a Miley Cyrus cover in the main set, but imagine if they went the whole hog and covered their
What that sound lacks in complexity and variety, it compensates with an aesthetic unity that makes the concert cohere. Tonight, no jagged new experimental numbers push the boundaries; instead, two hours of pleasing, consistent, easy-listening music, sweetly sung. More reliably, Angus’ laid-back singing breaks the Julia spell as they broadly alternate the lead vocals from song to song. On his numbers, there is also an emotional distance despite the direct simplicity of the lyrics and arrangements, but this distance plays as an Australian everyman who unwittingly finds himself in the spotlight.
It’s directed with perhaps too-straightforward steadiness by Anna Houston – it’s hard to get lost in the piece’s inherent abstractness when it so resolutely marches through each scene. Aron Murray’s lights and projections – working in concert with Steve Toulmin’s sound – flesh out the scenes with dramatic cues: flashing reds, loud buzzers and tones, and a melancholic score.
To mark the bicentenary of Anton Bruckner’s birth, SSO chief conductor Simone Young chose to present the original version of his craggiest, most expansive symphony and the last the composer completed – Symphony No 8 in C minor.
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