Elim Chan/London Symphony Orchestra
Barbican, 9th June 2019
What qualities make for a good storyteller? Someone with a captivating voice to draw in listeners. Someone who makes eye contact. Someone who brings a story alive through vivid characterisation, be it humour, a hushed voice, an hypnotic phrase. It helps to have an interesting story to tell. Scheherazade had the very best, a thousand and one life-saving stories to entertain the sultan. Translated into music by Rimsky-Korsakov, it gave Elim Chan and the London Symphony Orchestra chance to flex their storytelling muscles. But pianist Alice Sara Ott also had tales to weave and proved the more engaging narrator.
Alice Sara Ott
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