First Night at The Hub – The Hub
And so, it begins.
A couple of hours ago I heard this exact piece played by these exact musicians.
So why does it suddenly sound completely different?
Earlier in the evening, at the Usher Hall, conductor Karina Canellakis had put down her baton, picked up her violin and joined pianist Kirill Gerstein for the Blues movement from Ravel's Violin Sonata No. 2. It was beautifully played, but somehow this intimate little conversation struggled against the grandeur and ceremony of that enormous hall.
Now they have hightailed it up the hill to The Hub, as have I, and everything has changed.
The room is smaller. We are closer. The acoustic is different. Suddenly every inflection matters. The blues within Ravel's music seems clearer, the conversation between violin and ...