NATALIE MURRAY BEALE 

 

 

English National Opera, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

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"Conductor finds new beauties in Sullivan's score"

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“Most striking of all, perhaps, is how seriously conductor Natalie Murray Beale takes each musically rich number, vindicating Sullivan’s reputation as more than just a tunesmith to match Gilbert’s endlessly sharp and funny words. Fusion between pit and singers often attains perfection.”

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"'Oh is there not one maiden breast', makes beautiful musical as well as verbal sense; the alliance with Murray Beale is surely part of that. And her delicate handling of the strings in the old-fashioned tune for the Sergeant of Police's famous song compliments James Cresswell's resonant but deadpan delivery."

David Nice THE ARTS DESK

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"Conductor Natalie Murray Beale ensures that the orchestra achieves the right blend of park bandstand oompah and Victorian parlour music, while the parodies of 19th century Italian operatic style are precise yet affectionate."

Nick Kimberley THE EVENING STANDARD

 

“Murray Beale gets a nicely poised performance from the orchestra”

Erica Jeale THE GUARDIAN

 

“In the pit, Natalie Murray Beale secures a sense of rollicking fun, with a rhythmic precision and an expressive freedom gradually gaining focus.”

David Truslove OPERA TODAY

 

“...the orchestra, under Natalie Murray Beale’s baton, is full of oomph”

Vera Liber BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE

 

“Conductor Natalie Murray Beale never let the pace slacken and the orchestra really seemed to be enjoying themselves, especially in the jaunty overture; after such an introduction, you know you are going to have a good evening.”

John Rhodes SEEN AND HEARD, INTERNATIONAL

 

“…the excellent musicians give a strong performance under the careful baton of British-Australian conductor Natalie Murray Beale”

Dr Diana Carroll ARTS HUB

 

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, NEW DARK AGE

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"expertly conducted as it was by Natalie Murray Beale."  Richard Fairman  FINANCIAL TIMES   

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"the excellent conductor Natalie Murray Beale"  John Allison  THE TELEGRAPH   

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"their music, lithely dispatched under Natalie Murray Beale, hit expressive ground: anger, intercession, meditation, even wry humour."  Neil Fisher  THE TIMES   

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"...under Natalie Murray Beale the orchestra created a kaleidoscope of acoustic and electronic colours"  Alexandra Coghlan, i    

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“Could this be the defining work of art of the Covid period?"  George Hall  THE STAGE   

 

“..the music is shot through with such energy that it hardly needs the accompanying video.” 

Jenny Camillieri  BACHTRACK  ​

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London Symphony Orchestra, ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, Deutsche Grammophon

​#No.1 Billboard Classical Charts  

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"..the vérité performance of the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Natalie Murray Beale is refreshingly organic, briskly paced and replete with outtakes."  ALBUM OF THE WEEK: WRTI

 

Philharmonia Orchestra, CONCERT TOUR, Cartagena International Festival

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"A breath of humanity is in the hands of Natalie Murray, fine, memorable, intuitive, delicate and firm, directing Symphony No.41 by Mozart."   Gustavo Tatis Guerra El UNIVERS

   

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, RAISING ICARUS

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"Natalie Murray Beale’s conducting ensures that the drama packs a punch" 

Andrew Clements  THE GUARDIAN

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Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, CONCERT, Yerevan

 

"The singing breadth of Murray's conductor's gesture warmed and filled every Ranjbaran melody with a lyrical feeling. Not displaying only the external - albeit very spectacular exotic side of the composition, the conductor managed to convey high moral pathos, and brought depth and beauty to this magnificent Concert."  Natalia Gomtsyan GOLOSARMENII

"At the Yerevan concert, she conquered the ability to immerse herself entirely in music, to give herself to an emotional impulse. Natalie also captured the temperament, multi-coloured sound of the orchestra, the unique individuality of interpretations, and a creative burning inevitably transmitted to the orchestra. The audience was not their own: they enthusiastically received the musicians and everything that was presented from the stage."  Natalia Gomtsyan GOLOSARMENII

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New Zealand Opera, COSI FAN TUTTE

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“Natalie Murray Beale conducted with significant feeling, starting with an alert account of the overture featuring beguiling woodwind solos. Particularly remarkable was the pacing of the succession of magnificent ensembles around Ferrando and Guglielmo’s departure for the battlefield. In the complicated finales, Beale kept the voices in perfect balance and maintained an admirable sweep and momentum.”  Simon Holden BACHTRACK  

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“In the pit the CSO embraces the conductor’s cracking pace with apparent relish.”                                Tim Jones  THEATRE REVIEW  ​

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“Conductor Natalie Murray Beale had fine control over the entire ensemble with pleasing balance, and the quality of sound from the orchestra which was accurate, with beautiful moments from the woodwind principals, in particular the clarinets and the high intricate French horn work. The strings played with appropriate narrow vibrato, good shaping and refinement."                         Anthony Ferner  THE PRESS ​

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“And conductor Natalie Murray Beale’s vital, pliable direction held cast, chorus and orchestra, together with distinction. In this way conductor and players became the fulcrum around which the opera’s equivocations were most successfully and thoughtfully delivered throughout.” 

Peter Mechen  MIDDLE-C  

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“Conductor Natalie Murray Beale and Orchestra Wellington provide great, sensitive and well-paced accompaniment to the fast-moving action.”   Elizabeth Kerr  THEATRE REVIEW  

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“Conductor Natalie Murray Beale adopted lively tempi and coaxed fine, stylish playing." 

Roger Wilson  STUFF  ​

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“The APO under the direction of conductor Natalie Murray Beale gave a splendid performance.” John Daly-Peoples  NZ ARTS REVIEW

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“Auckland Philharmonia’s musicians never fail to cohere under the sound direction of Maestra Beale, with the woodwinds playing meltingly well. From the opening oboe solo to the liquid lyricism of the clarinet we are seduced by the beauty of the score and its performance.” Michael Hooper  THEATRE REVIEW  

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“Natalie Murray Beale’s incisive musical direction obviously inspires a buoyant Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra”  William Dart  NEW ZEALAND HERALD  ​

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Theater Bonn, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY

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“Natalie Murray Beale has studied this with the Beethoven Orchestra blindingly, achieving a differentiated, frequently expressive, highly flexible reproduction.”  CONCERTI

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“The Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, under the musical direction of the conductor Natalie Murray Beale, impressively brought to obedience, rarely does one get offered such a work so intensely." DER OPERNFREUD

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“Musically the performance is impressive. The conductor Natalie Murray Beale not only conducted the choir and the orchestra colourfully, but also the multifaceted style facets of the score.”  FAZ

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“The Beethoven-Orchester Bonn under the musical direction of Natalie Murray Beale mastered the minimalist primed music of the 'postminimalists' -Adams over Adams- cum grano salis with commitment and feeling”. O-TON-ONLINE

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“Natalie is holding the complex happening in the pit together sovereignly”  RHEINISCHE POST

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“The conductor Natalie Murray Beale directs the choir and the striking Beethoven orchestral orchestra sovereignly through the complex rhythms of the musically immensely rich score, influenced by the American minimal music.”   GENERAL ANZEIGER/BONNER RUNDSCHAU

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Croatian National Theatre, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

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"Natalie Murray Beale led a secure orchestra and chorus in a tight musical performance"  VIJENAC

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"The sound of the orchestra was refined and smooth"  ZAREZ

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Malta Philharmonic, OPERA GALA

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"Setting the tone for the evening, the MPO, under the direction of the conductor Natalie Murray Beale, gave a lively performance of the overture to Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. In the popular Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s Prince Igor, the orchestra performed this work to perfection."  TIMES OF MALTA

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