Radialsystem V: “Angel’s Share – a staged concert”

In an altogether endearing manner, Nico and the Navigators look into just what it is that makes English music what it is: fantasy, irony, humour, ardency... Adrian Gillott as the narrator keeps on interrupting the action and the various concert rituals. The borders between art music and beer taverns become blurred in the improvisations and the extreme counterpoint in Purcell's music... In the foreground lies the pleasure of improvisation, including with objects, which here are extremely light and playful, as conceived by Nicola Hümpel. Maps, fans, ruffs, everything can be transformed into something else. Nadine Milzner gives us a quintessential representation of the British stiff upper lip and the all too serious art industry. The musicians of the Academy for Ancient Music may have given themselves a fashionable name, but the ensemble they are drawn from is ever recognizable in the relish with which they play. Julla von Landsberg's performance suggests to us that art music lives on elitist refinement which only suggests naturalness. At the end of the show the Angel's Share of whisky is given out to the audience and everything unravels into having fun...

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