Awakening: A Musical Meditation on the Anniversary of 9/11 – review

Barbican Hall, LondonInitially performed in San Francisco on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Kronos Quartet's Awakening concert was recreated in New York last year for the 10th anniversary. In many respects a typical Kronos enterprise, with the musical elements structured as a continuum and presented on a darkened stage amid a tangle of industrial detritus, this was its first UK performance.Given the context, the fact that the concert's first sound comes from the oud, an Arabic in...

Read full article Share article