Category: Baroque
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Handel’s Messiah at the Barbican review ****
Britten Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia Voices Handel’s Messiah, Barbican Hall, 19th December 2018 Jacqueline Shave (violin/director), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Allen Clayton (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) Christmas on the way. Full house at the Barbican. MSBD as wingman. Messiah. A quartet of outstanding soloists. The Britten Sinfonia Voices. The…
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English Chamber Orchestra: Vivaldi at Cadogan Hall review ****
English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of the C21 Cadogan Hall, 2nd December 2018 Raphaela Papadakis (soprano), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Caroline Dale (cello), Harry Winstanley (flute), Michael Collins (conductor) Antonio Vivaldi Gloria in D RV 589 Concerto for Violin in F minor, ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons, Op 8…
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Glass and Reich: LSO at the Barbican review ***
Divine Geometry: London Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi, Simone Dinnerstein (piano) Barbican Hall, 29th November 2018 Charles Coleman – Drenched Charles Coleman – Bach Inspired Philip Glass – Piano Concerto No 3 Kristjan Jarvi – Too Hot to Handel Steve Reich – Music for Ensemble and Orchestra Funny one this. As…
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English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire review ****
English Touring Opera Hackney Empire, 12th October 2018 Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Carissimi – Jonas Gesualdo – I Will Not Speak I am partial to English Touring Opera’s productions. The repertoire tends to be up my street, with a bias to smaller, chamber and Baroque works, reflecting resources and…
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Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at St Luke’s Old St review *****
Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) LSO St Luke’s Old St JS Bach Sonata no 3 for violin and harpsichord in E major BWV 1016 Partita no 2 for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 Sonata no 1 for violin and harpsichord in B minor BWV 1014 Toccata for…
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Venetian Baroque: Academy of Ancient Music at St Luke’s Old St review ****
Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Cicic (violin), Persephone Gibbs (violin), Sarah McMahon (cello), Alistair Ross (harpsichord), William Cater (theorbo) LSO St Luke’s Old St, 15th June 2018 Dario Castello – Sonatas No 10 a 3 Book Two, No 1 a 2 Book One, Sonata No 1 for violin (Book Two),…
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Nicola Benedetti and the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican review ****
Academy of Ancient Music, Nicola Benedetti (violin), Richard Egarr (director and harpsichord) Barbican Hall, 31st May 2018 Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Violin in D major RV 208 “Il Grosso Mogul” Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Harpsichord RV 780 Mystery Composer – Sinfonia in D first movement Georg Philipp Telemann…
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Bach: The Late Concertos from the Feinstein Ensemble at Kings Place review ****
The Feinstein Ensemble, Catherine Mason, Miki Takahashi, Sarah Moffatt (violins), Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), Martin Feinstein (flute, director) Kings Place, 13th April 2018 JS Bach Triple Concerto in A minor for flute, violin & harpsichord BWV 1044 Concerto in D minor for violin (reconstructed from BWV 1052) Concerto in F for…
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Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout at Wigmore Hall review ****
Isabelle Faust (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord) Wigmore Hall, 9th April 2018 JS Bach – Violin Sonatas 4, 5 and 2, BWV 1017, 1018 and 1015, Johan Jacob Froberger Suite No 12 in C minor for harpsichord, Biber – Violin Sonata No 5 in E minor, Mystery Sonatas Passacaglia in G…
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Rachel Podger and VOCES8 at Kings Place review ****
Rachel Podger, VOCES8 – A Guardian Angel Kings Place, 28th March 2018 Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears Plainchant – Pater Noster Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Rosary Sonata No 16 Passacaglia “A Guardian Angel” Jonathan Dove – into thy hands Nicola Matteis – Passaggio rotto, Fantasia, Movimento incognito…
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