Tag: JS Bach
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Igor Levit plays Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues at the Barbican review *****
Igor Levit Barbican Hall, 26th January 2020 Dmitri Shostakovich – 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 If you going to be inspired by anyone to write a monumental piano piece than JS Bach is a good place to start, specifically his Well Tempered Clavier collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues.…
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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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Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Wigmore Hall review ***
Isabelle Faust (violin), Wies de Boevé (double bass), Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Jörgen van Rijen (trombone), Raymond Curfs (drums), Dominique Horwitz (narrator) Wigmore Hall, 23rd December 2019 Bartok – Solo Violin Sonata BB124 Stravinsky – The Soldier’s Tale Curious confection this. Cut off from Russian royalties on the ballets, Stravinsky was…
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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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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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Collegium Vocale Gent at the Barbican review *****
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hanna Blazikova (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass) Barbican Hall, 14th June 2019 It’s Bach. It’s the B Minor Mass. So of course it is beautiful. But it can be a bit, well, “bitty”. After all the…
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Bach Orchestral Suites: OAE at Queen Elizabeth Hall review ****
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Margaret Faultless (director/violin), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute) Queen Elizabeth Hall, 14th May 2019 Okey dokey pig in a pokey. There has been a grumpy tone in the last few posts that the workshy Tourist, courtesy of an imagined pep talk from Pauline, is resolved to…
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Bach St John Passion: OAE at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Simon Rattle (conductor), Peter Sellars (director), Choir of the Enlightenment Royal Festival Hall, 2nd April 2019 JS Bach – St John Passion Camilla Tilling (soprano) Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Staples (tenor) Mark Padmore (tenor, Evangelist) Roderick Williams (baritone, Jesus) George Nigl (baritone) The Tourist, along with chum for the night…
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Lucie Horsch and the AAM at Milton Court review *****
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (harpsichord, director), Lucie Horsch (recorder) Milton Court Concert Hall, 24th February 2019 Antonio Vivaldi – Flautino Concerto in C major, RV443 (arr in G major for recorder) JS Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No 3 in D major BW V1054 Giuseppe Sammartini – Recorder Concerto…
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Philippe Herreweghe and Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall review ****
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor),Bertrand Chamayou (piano) Royal Festival Hall, 21st February 2019 JS Bach – Orchestral Suite No.3 in D Mozart – Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 Mozart – Symphony No.41 (Jupiter) A rare opportunity to hear modern instruments tackle some core Baroque and Classical orchestral repertoire in an HIP style,…
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