Category: Baroque
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Catching up (Part 5)
May 2021 La Clemenza di Tito – Royal Opera House – 18th May – *** First live event out of the block in 2021. A visit to the socially distanced ROH with BUD to see La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart.s late opera, from 1791, with libretto from by Caterino Mazzolà, after Pietro…
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Accademia Bizantina at Milton Court review *****
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director) Milton Court Concert Hall, 19th January 2020 Bach the Craftsman: The Art of Fugue In which, as part of a Bach weekend curated by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, Ottavio Dantone and his troupe of crack HIP strings play the Art of Fugue. I should probably stop there…
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Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the Barbican Hall review ****
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock (director), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Claudia Huckle (alto), James Way (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass), Zürcher Sing-Akademie Barbican Hall, 11th December 2019 The Tourist’s annual Messiah. Almost Billy No Mates. But eventually MSBDB1 stepped into the breach. For which many thanks as Messiah is best shared. Now…
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Pergolesi and Vivaldi: OAE at the Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Katherine Watson (soprano), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Zoe Brookshaw (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe), Choir of the Age of Enlightenment Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11th November 2019 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) – Stabat Mater Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) – Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 No.2 Antonio Vivaldi…
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Joanna MacGregor at the Wigmore Hall review ****
Joanna MacGregor (piano) Wigmore Hall, 11th November 2019 Birds, Grounds, Chaconnes Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) – Le rappel des oiseaux François Couperin (1668-1733) – Les fauvétes plaintives Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – Le merle noir Jean-Philippe Rameau – La poule Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) – On an Overgrown Path X. The barn owl…
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King Arthur by Henry Purcell at the Cadogan Hall review ***
London Concert Choir, Counterpoint, Mark Forkgen (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Bethany Partridge (soprano), William Towers (countertenor), James Way (tenor), Peter Willcock (baritone) Cadogan Hall, 7th November 2019 Henry Purcell – King Arthur Early afternoon spent in the company of Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’s Joker before an…
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The Intelligence Park at the Linbury Theatre review ***
The Intelligence Park Linbury Theatre Royal Opera House, 2nd October 2019 I have no-one else to blame for this. Having now heard a smattering of his larger scale works thanks in large part to Thomas Ades’s advocacy in his Beethoven cycle with the Britten Sinfonia, having invested in a CD…
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Prom 71 The Dunedin Consort at the Royal Albert Hall review ****
Prom 71 – Dunedin Consort, John Butt (conductor) Royal Albert Hall, 11th September 2019 JS Bach – Orchestral Suites 1-4 Nico Muhly – Tambourin Stevie Wishart – The Last Dance? Ailie Robertson – Chaconne Stuart MacRae – Courante No need to delay too long on the JSB. Last seen and…
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Prom 70 Jonny Greenwood at the Royal Albert Hall review *****
Prom 70 – BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, Hugh Brunt (conductor), Daniel Pioro violin), Katherine Tinker (piano), Jonny Greenwood (bass guitar, tanpura), Nicolas Magriel (tanpura) Royal Albert Hall, 10th September 2019 Biber – Mystery Sonata no 16, Passacaglia in G minor Penderecki – Sinfonietta for strings,…
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Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque: Vivaldi at the Wigmore Hall review *****
Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque, Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord), Daniele Caminiti (lute) Wigmore Hall, 1st July 2019 Antonio Vivaldi Sonata a4 al Santo Sepolcro RV130 Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93 Concerto in D Op 3, No 9…
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