Lontano Reviews

BBC Promenade Concert- Royal Albert Hall
Their accounts of Varese's Octandre and Integrales boasted hard-edged sonorities and rhythmic definition... while Stravinsky's Octet had a delightfully breezy buoyancy, faithfully to the work's fairground spirit.

The Times

Lontano 21st Anniversary Concert Series
"There are concerts that make you realise what you've been missing........ The first half of Thursday's Lontano concert at St John's, Smith Square, provided the answer"

The Independent

I have seen someone-Karólina Eiríksdóttir
"Intensity and economy of utterance......conductor Odaline de la Martinez drew deft playing...."

The Independent

Inanna- Jenni Roditi
"...work excellent work from....Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez produced a performance that was musically first class."

Manchester Evening News

"Odaline de la Martinez.... a clear sighted and astonishly able music director. She brings a sense of adventure to contemporary music which the instrumentalists obviously share".

Musical Times

Music in Our Time Brian Ferneyhough
"The performances were thrilling ... bold, enthusiatic, passionate, each player making much of his or her virtuoso."

The Observer

Votes for Women
"Performances were accomplished..."

The Independent

"Tantalisingly restrained..."

The Times

Lontano Latino- A fiesta of Latin American Music
"..the ease, grace and fluency of their playing..."

The Independent

"...brightness of colour and sharp definition..."

BBC Promenade Concert- Royal Albert Hall
"For atmosphere, musical adventurousness and sheer fun it actually outscored the evening's main concert a few hours earlier."

The Daily Telegraph

"...an entrancing late-night Prom by the ensemble Lontano."

The Times

"There was no anniversary or contrived excuse for the Villa-Lobos - just the enthusiam of Odaline de la Martinez and her group Lontano in some vivacious performances"

The Independent


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