Young Classical Music Artists Agency and Promoter

Press Reviews For O Duo

‘…phenomenal artistry’
The Daily Telegraph February 2006

‘Brimming with style and panache’.
The Daily Telegraph

‘Brilliant….one of the Fringe’s small gems
5 stars The Herald

‘Startling…cheeky, but enchanting’.
4 stars The Scotsman

The Daily Telegraph 10 February 2007 CD of the Week
In live concerts, part of the fun of watching Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox - the pair who make up the percussion ensemble O Duo - is that they are such nifty movers. The footwork is as spry as Fred Astaire's, the choreography as fluent as in any ballet. They dart from instrument to instrument in their arsenal of things to hit and slap, changing places with split-second timing. They have got the visual athleticism of their performances down to a fine art.
If that element is absent from this purely audio disc, you can certainly appreciate O Duo‘s virtuosity, their exploratory range of works and their willingness to give us some show-stopping arrangements in among modern pieces written specifically for percussion. So, alongside Minoru Miki’s mesmerising Marimba Spiritual and Stephen McNeff‘s witty study of professional coffee-making in Baristas, there is a brilliant transcription of Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, as well as versions of Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Bach preludes and fugues.
So stylish are O Duo‘s performances, so kaleidoscopic the colours and so invigorating the rhythms, you feel that any of these composers would happily have scored their pieces for percussion if only there had been an ensemble of O Duo’s calibre around to play them.
The Daily Telegraph Sony BMG 88697027202 February 2007

To engage O Duo for a concert please call us on 020 7379 8477 or contact us using the enquiry form.

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