Five-star review: How the ‘new’ Opera House sounds
★★★★★
Somehow lightness is its natural mode – there are no barks or bumps, chestiness or phlegm, no sense that details are being overwhelmed by miasmas lurking in the shades. If it is a mist, you can see gloriously through it: if it is a clamour, you hear the pain of every voice. For veteran reviewer Peter McCallum the sound from the newly refurbished concert hall could not be better.The upper strings have sweetness with a delicately refreshing spray of added upper harmonics, while the lower strings have a chestnut resonance. The woodwinds are discreet and distinctive, while the burnish from the brass is handsome and well-behaved – heroic but with no overbearing or mansplaining.
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