After a long time away, we returned to York with two concerts in a single day — and the city answered with a full sold out for both.
There was something beautifully precise in the pairing. One programme opened the door to dream and memory: Hayao Miyazaki’s Dreams by Mystery Ensemble, with its luminous, weightless inner world shaped by the music of Joe Hisaishi. The other moved in a different direction — toward structure, pulse, and reinvention — with Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, where a familiar masterpiece reappears in a sharpened contemporary light.
To bring these two very different musical languages back to York on the same day felt meaningful in itself. One concert asked the audience to enter tenderness and wonder; the other invited them into repetition, tension, and transformation. Together, they formed a kind of diptych — two distinct ways of listening, two full rooms, one city meeting us with remarkable attention.
For us, this return to York was more than a date on the route. It was the kind of day that reminds us why certain cities remain with us: not only because we come back, but because the connection is still there when we do.
We are grateful to York for welcoming us again so wholeheartedly — and for turning this long-awaited return into two unforgettable sold-out concerts.
