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| An irresistible night of intimacy with Lesley |
| Written by Administrator | |
| Saturday, 29 May 2004 | |
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Lesley Garrett, An Intimate Evening, Carlisle’s Sands Centre. Sexy, sassy and professional to the very core, Lesley Garrett deserved the standing ovation that her concert at Carlisle’s Sands Centre received last night.
Britain’s most popular and enduring soprano delighted and impressed from the moment she stepped onto the stage in her deep-red crushed velvet, figure-hugging “frock” (as this Yorkshire lass likes to call them). She thanked Anton, her co-partner in BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, for helping her to lose the 10 pounds she needed to slide into this dress. This set the tone for the sultry opening of her intimate evening with the Northern Sinfonia which took a packed Sands Centre audience on a musical journey as varied and as lively as the singer herself. With a stage clothed in black with subtle and dimmed lighting, the audience was immediately drawn into the intimacy of this concert. Lesley opened with The Singer, the title track of her new CD, and led a mesmerised audience into a concert of light classical music, opera and popular songs. She threw in a Beatles track with Let It Be, added a touch of Simon and Garfunkel with Scarborough Fair and Sting’s Fields of Gold. She performed at her very best throughout but it was the classical pieces that showed her truly rich soprano voice to perfection. Her performance of Purcell’s Dido’s Lament and two beautifully selected Songs of the Auvergne was stunning. Northern Sinfonia impressed with every pitch-perfect note under the guidance of conductor and pianist Tolga Kashif. Two encores, including Jerusalem that Lesley has made her own, ended such a rare visit to Carlisle of one so talented. Source |
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