Ballet, amor y Francia: Minkowski y Les Musiciens du Louvre

By David Santana Cañas, 04 March 2019

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 3 March 2019

Gluck, Don Juan

Rameau, Zaïs: Overture

Rameau, Castor et Pollux: Scène funèbre

Rameau, Les Fêtes d’Hébé: Air tendre

Rameau, Dardanus: Tambourins 1 and 2

Rameau, Le Temple de la Gloire: Air tendre pour les Muses

Rameau, Les Boréades: Contredanse en Rondeau

Rameau, La Naissance d’Osiris: Air gracieux

Rameau, Les Boréades: Gavottes I & II pour les Heures et les Zéphirs

Rameau, Platée: L'Orage

Rameau, Les Boréades: Prélude

Rameau, Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin: La Poule

Rameau, Les Fêtes d’Hébé: Musette en Rondeau

Rameau, Les Fêtes d’Hébé: Tambourin en Rondeau

Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle

Rameau, Naïs: Suite

Rameau, Les Indes galantes: Danse des Sauvages. Rondeau

Rameau, Les Boréades: Entrée de Polymnie

Rameau, Naïs: Rigaudons I & II

Rameau, Les Indes galantes: Chaconne

Marc Minkowski, Conductor

Les Musiciens du Louvre

All that glitters is not gold: Mitridate, Re di Ponto in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 4th December

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden's multi-seasonal Baroque project continues with a new production of Mozart's first opera seria, which roars and soars under the conducting of Marc Minkowski.

****1

Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE

David Karlin, 13th November

Laurent Pelly’s new production combines froth and hilarity with a dark, satirical heart; Marc Minkowski and the orchestra seduce us.

****1

Christmas celebrations with Marc Minkowski

Zoltán Szabó, 13th December

An early Christmas celebration in Budapest, with four of Bach's cantatas from his Christmas Oratorio.

****1

Baroque sorcery: Handel's Alcina returns to the Staatsoper

Katherine Syer, 20th October

Baroque purists might prefer a more surefire line-up of brilliantly executed arias, but the theatrical framework of Adrian Noble's Alcina production offers a great deal.

****1

Cross-dressing abounds: Gluck's Armide

David Karlin, 19th October

Excellent playing from Les Musiciens du Louvre and a mixed vocal performance are matched by a staging by Ivan Alexandre likely to be controversial.

**111

Platée at Opéra Garnier : Folly in charge

Jean-Marc Piriou, 9th September

One has to admit that the 2015 vintage of this operatic Grand Cru, with us since 1999, is a particularly fine one. To be consumed with immoderation!

*****

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David Santana Cañas

David Santana (Bilbao, 1996) comienza sus estudios de música en la especialidad de fagot en el Conservatorio Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga de Bilbao. En 2014 se traslada a Madrid, donde cursa el grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa y finaliza sus estudios musicales de fagot en el Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar de Madrid. Actualmente se encuentra ampliando su formación con la realización del Máster de Investigación de Música Española e Hispanoamericana en la UCM.

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