Anthony Marwood / James Crabb Duo : Reviews
DUO
‘When English violinist Anthony Marwood and Scottish accordionist James Crabb performed Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending it was as if the audience had been transported from the concert hall to a very high-end folk club in the local pub.
Here were two old friends, fiendishly talented and who know each other’s playing inside out, performing a much-loved and familiar work in the intimate setting of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s The Neilson in the last of the Up Close series for the year.
It truly felt as if the listener were privileged to be there as an onlooker and eavesdropper. Any reservations one might have had about an orchestra being substituted by a classical accordion were washed away with the serene pedal chord opening before Marwood and his 1736 Carlo Bergonzi violin began weaving their silken magic.’