Live music: Arve Henriksen - Triskel, Cork (ECM Weekend)

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The evocative and atmospheric music released by acclaimed German record label ECM has been famously described as “the most beautiful sound next to silence”.

At the beginning of this memorable Saturday night double bill, part of Triskel’s inaugural weekend celebration of the label and some of its musicians, the breathy and delicately controlled solo phrases of Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen were accompanied not just by Christchurch’s stillness and soaring sense of space — but briefly by the distant sounds of festive singing in adjacent Bishop Lucey Park. “It’s Christmas,” said Henriksen, at the end of his first piece.