{"id":4086,"date":"2025-11-10T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/?page_id=4086"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:22:17","slug":"nocte-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/artists\/nocte\/nocte-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWith only 28 musicians, it lays down a light chamber music-like, yet gently luminous, at times even roughened soundscape beneath Van Mechelen&#8217;s relaxed and easy vocal line, which certainly does not skimp on virtuoso runs and polished tonal gems. But this never becomes a technical end in itself; this careful and sensitive interpreter always strives for meaning and sensuality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rondo Magazine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As familiar as these concerts may be, there are still moods and sensations to be discovered between the lines of the music that have hardly been noticed before.<br \/>\nSuch as the wonderful shimmering of the strings with which the Belgian early music ensemble A Nocte Temporis bathes the first bars of the \u2018Andantino\u2019 in subdued light in the double concerto \u2013 before the two soloists Anna Besson (transverse flute) and Clara Izambert (harp) turn this piece into an opera aria without words. Anna Besson then picks up on this in the final movement of the D major concerto, which, given its exquisite joy of movement, would also have earned a place in a Mozart singspiel. Without any pretence or false rococo affectation, Besson, together with conductor Reinoud Van Mechelen and the Original Sound Musicians, who are in excellent form right down to the horns, ensures a seamless Mozart experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rondo Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only 28 musicians, it lays down a light chamber music-like, yet gently luminous, at times even roughened soundscape beneath Van Mechelen&#8217;s relaxed and easy vocal line, which certainly does not skimp on virtuoso runs and polished tonal gems. But this never becomes a technical end in itself; this careful and sensitive interpreter always strives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":4081,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4086","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4086\/revisions\/4155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albagorka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}