Depuis sa création en 1972, le Brodsky Quartet a très régulièrement joué à St Georges et pour les remercier de leur soutien le quartet a décidé de proposer à Björk de se produire sur scène avec eux.
Préambule des concerts à l’Union Chapel un an plus tard, tous les morceaux joués à cette occasion ont été arrangés pour Quartet et voix par le Brosdky Quartet.
Review
The string quartet opened brilliantly with a composition by Peter Sculthorpe in which the strings’ twittering glissandos echoed the calls of Australian birds. Then Björk appeared, dressed in a white cardie over a long oriental dress. If an opening Icelandic poem seemed pitched at a rather lofty aesthetic distance, the series of emotional open wounds that followed - songs taken mainly from the Homogenic album - were viscerally direct, with the lyrics’ unflinching autopsy of failed relationships given an even rawer edge by the sawing strings of the quartet.
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The second half was, if possible, even more intense than the first, with "Anyone Who Had A Heart", a grandstanding "It’s Oh So Quiet", and another Icelandic poem. The fact that Björk has been touring with strings as well as a programmer concert (and the amplification was so minimal that she sang off mike with no evident weakening), suggested that she may not quite have found her sympathetic context yet.
source : The Independent
