Into the Light review

Ross Harris climbs ever upward with his new Cello Concerto.

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19th May, 2012

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Ross Harris is a master of beginnings and endings. Of course, what happens in between is equally important, but it’s the opening that has to grab your attention and the final note that has to spark the applause. With his new Cello Concerto, Harris does both. From the lowest note possible in the orchestral basses, barely audible and made even more mysterious by a quiet rumbling from the bass drum, the cello soloist’s entry starts on the same lowest note. It escapes, though, and in the same way a painter catches your eye with a wellplaced splash of colour so one’s ear can immediately ...

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