Georgia Straight Review: Daniel Bolshoy

By on March 18, 2011 in Canadian News and Events, Classical Guitar Canada Blog

Bolshoy, a very gifted musician, produced hardly so much as a fret noise and gave the concerto a distinct feeling of that indefinite Spanish term duende, whose nearest definition is “soul”. He also produced a superb response to the exquisite slow movement that inspired many musicians, Miles Davis among them. This section is a direct echo of the Moors who once ruled Spain, its ornamentation as evocatively Arabic as a muezzin’s melismatic calls from a minaret. And there was some beautiful work from English-horn player Beth Orson.

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