Delicadeza y júbilo con la B'Rock Orchestra y el Chorwerk Ruhr

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 20 December 2019

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 18 December 2019

Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 (Cantatas núm. 1, 2, 3 y 6)

B'Rock Orchestra

Sarah Wegener, Soprano

Marie-Henriette Reinhold, Mezzo-soprano

Fabio Trümpy, Tenor

André Morsch, Baritone

Chorwerk Ruhr

Florian Helgath, Conductor

Ghouls, ghosts and woodland wonder: B’Rock at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 25th January

Dutch virtuoso Lucie Horsch plays Baroque recorder – just not how we usually expect it.

****1

René Jacobs confronts acoustical challenges in Dortmund Handel

Mengguang Huang, 12th March

René Jacobs and Sunhae Im tackle Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Dortmund’s acoustically dry Reinoldihaus. Despite challenges, Im’s radiant soprano and B’Rock Orchestra’s basso continuo group shine.

****1

Telemann's Orpheus in Amsterdam: a truly European opera

Nicolas Nguyen, 23rd October

In the hands of B'Rock Orchestra and conductor René Jacobs, Telemann's polyglot opera, once thought lost to time, becomes more than just a curiosity.

****1

Dido and Aeneas reworked as performance art

Cameron Kelsall, 24th April

Though ambitious and occasionally arresting, this revised and expanded take on the Purcell classic suffers from subtraction by addition.

**111

Barocktage opens with a murder: Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio

Laura Servidei, 1st November

Romeo Castellucci’s inspiring and spiritual production lands in Berlin, with a superb cast of Baroque specialists and the B’Rock Orchestra under the baton of René Jacobs.

****1

Irreverence and ennui in De Keersmaeker's Six Brandenburg Concertos

Ivan Talijancic, 7th October

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker's production of Six Brandenburg Concertos at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City disappoints

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.

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