Orbiting the Light Review: “another of their gloriously imaginative feasts”

Orbiting the Light was a collaboration between Matt Belcher (creative director), Charlie Lee-Potter (poet) and Sinfonia Smith Square. The Reviews Hub’s Jane Darcy awarded the show five stars in her review:

“Orbiting the Light, created by Sinfonia Smith Square’s ConcertLab, is another of their gloriously imaginative feasts….

Each section of the programme is introduced by a specially commissioned poem, written and read by poet Charlie Lee-Potter. So attentive are the poems to patterns of sound and rhythm that each feels like a short musical composition in itself.  We might fleetingly catch the distinctive playfulness of a villanelle, then a rondeau. Each is shaped to evoke a particular time of night.

A hushed atmosphere is maintained throughout. Musicians silently form into groups, now a quintet, now an octet, sometimes playing in front of us, sometimes behind us. Occasionally music descends from the gallery.

… A magical night”