Partisans Coronation Tap, Bristol, Tue; Queen's Head Inn, Monmouth, Wed British postbop quartet that can sound like anything from Miles Davis fusion group to a mysterious Wayne Shorter ensemble, with a raft of original ideas in between.
Ligeti's dramatic invention found a parallel in the British premiere of Eotvos's own Snatches of a Conversation, for Marco Blaauw's bizarre double-belled trumpet, Omar Ebrahim's mysterious speaker and ensemble.
Even in the opening movement, suffused as it is with pianissimo passages that create an unsettled, mysterious atmosphere, the ensemble played with an intensity that had been missing elsewhere in the program.
This peep-show effect, and the cloudy patterning of the silk, give the ensemble a mysterious aura.
The ensemble radiated a mysterious assuredness.
One is a Fang sculpture from Gabon, a seated man with a bulging forehead and truncated jaw who, having been separated long ago from his reliquary ensemble, remains somewhat mysterious to us.
For those of a more mystically medieval Christmas mind-set, the Hilliard Ensemble's "Transeamus" brings refined, mysterious awe to obscure 15th century British carols and motets.
The music, performed by the ensemble in half-masks, suggests a mysterious, benevolent force beyond human comprehension.
At the Eco Ensemble's rehearsal of a dynamic, mysterious piano concerto this week, a grand piano sat on center stage, playing itself.
CBSO Centre, Birmingham, Sun The ensemble celebrates 25 years with a new opera, a mysterious tale involving the mythical Green Man and a protagonist seemingly stranded in the 1950s.
