Abdullah Ibrahim | Classical review

Barbican, LondonThe musicologist Wilfrid Mellers once described Abdullah Ibrahim, the much-loved and hugely influential South African composer and pianist, as a musician of both the old world and the new – "on a razor edge between hazard and hope". Now 75, Ibrahim is less audibly on a razor edge, but those tensions still give his music a rare eloquence. The affection his fans feel for him was apparent in the roars that greeted his slow walk to the stage, and in the even louder standing ov...

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