Faith in images

...Oliver Proske's stage design is a stroke of genius, with its multifunctional components out of which Nicola Hümpel artfully composes movable images. Nicholas Jenkins draws a great rhythmic spirit and subtle expressiveness out of what is an unusual cast of instruments for a mass: a harmonium (Jan Gerdes) and two pianos (SooJin Anjou, David Zobel). Rossini's "Sins of Old Age" endowed his conducting with considerable liveliness and energy. The choir dazzled, beautifully balancing the enchanting pianos, whether singing a capella or in the full voice of jubilant song. The polyphonic passages sounded as if full of transparent lightness. With sublime balance and silken voices, the quartet of soloists comprising Laura Mitchell, Ulrike Mayer, Milos Bulajic and Nikolay Borchev stole the show...

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