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Surprises aplenty from I Fagiolini: Monteverdi’s other Vespers

I Fagiolini‘s very interesting programme of music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries pulls together a wide range of works, but somehow lacks an ensemble feel. These “Other Vespers” are not…

November 28, 2017 in Concert.

Mixed Bach: Bach Reconstructed from The Academy of Ancient Music

The more concerts you experience, the more grows your confidence in being able to pick a good one. And this promised to be good, given the exceptional skill of the…

April 11, 2017 in Concert.

Baroque this Christmas: La Notte di Natale with Spiritato! and Cambridge Early Music

A Christmas concert with a difference – and, thanks to superb playing from Spiritato!, an immensely enjoyable one. Cambridge Early Music offered a sumptuous feast of Italian Baroque music as their Christmas…

December 12, 2016 in Concert.

Anguish with or without words: the Philharmonia plays Schubert and Mahler

Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony no. 8 in B minor and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde received a gleaming treatment from the Philharmonia, conducted by a very athletic Josep Pons. Pons’ sense of…

October 18, 2016 in Concert.

Boy Donne good: Toby Spence in Tippett and Britten III, Aldeburgh Festival

Although his words could have been crisper, all the songs came across with a pleasing sense of flow, Spence’s light lyric tenor happily expanding to the rafters at Snape, when…

June 24, 2016 in Concert.

Music more than words: Britten and Tippett at the Aldeburgh Festival

Although I had undoubtedly come to Snape that evening solely in order to hear Ian Bostridge sing Britten and Tippett, I left feeling the most astonished, and exhilarated, by Britten’s…

June 20, 2016 in Concert.

Starting as you mean to go on: Britten’s Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Director Struan Leslie’s reimagining of Britten’s Les Illuminations song cycle opened the Aldeburgh Festival with an exciting array of circus performers, creating a dreamy evening without plot, but heady with potent mood,…

June 13, 2016 in Concert.

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