Cassandra Wright - In the Twilight - Limelight

4.5*

Wright appears to be at home on both the stage and the concert platform. Hence her ability to capture, with such crystalline beauty, clarity and expressivity, the insouciant atmosphere of Agee’s childhood summer evening remembered in later life and the more adult yearning and nocturnal dreamscapes encountered in the rest of the program.

Fittingly, Wright and Rylance finish with Barber’s Nocturne and Sure on this shining night – the latter surely one of the composer’s most beautiful and beloved songs. A most perfect end to a near-perfect recital.