Reviews

We were very happy at the reviews.

The Sydney Morning Herald did not put Harriet Cunningham's review online (a practice the paper seems to have got in the habit of lately) so here is an extract:

Meanwhile, the Old Testament episode of David and Jonathan is mostly

overlooked these days, not least because it revolves around war, jealousy

and men in love. It sounds like a job for Pinchgut Opera. David +

Jonathan is the seventh of its annual forays into rare treasures of the operatic

repertoire and, as ever, it has much to recommend it.

First and foremost, there is the orchestra, conducted by the artistic

director Antony Walker and led by Rachael Beesley. It would be hard to

imagine a finer ensemble of early-music practitioners and Charpentier's

slippery score comes alive in their hands. Walker negotiates the sudden

changes in tempi with magisterial calm, and has obviously worked hard

with his colleagues to create a balance of timbres among the various

instruments - the combination of theorbos, harpsichords and violones, for example,

makes for a wonderfully complex bass line.

Murray Black's review in The Australian is online here.