Les sortilèges de l'Accademia Bizantina à La Chaise-Dieu

By Philippe Ramin, 05 September 2019

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“l’orchestre met en valeur les couleurs moirées de la contralto en étageant de subtils plans sonores”

Reviewed at Abbatiale Saint-Robert, La Chaise-Dieu on 1 September 2019

Jommelli, Betulia liberata (extrait)

Porpora, In procella sine stella

Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans, RV 644 (extraits)

Vivaldi, Introduzione al Miserere (Filiae maestae Jerusalem), RV 638

Vivaldi, Non in pratis, RV 641

Vivaldi, Concerto for strings in B flat major, RV 167

Vivaldi, Concerto for strings in F major, RV 138

Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in D major, RV582, "Per la Santissima Assontione di Maria Vergine”

Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Erbarme dich mein Gott

Delphine Galou, Contralto

Alessandro Tampieri, Violin

Accademia Bizantina

Ottavio Dantone, Conductor

Barrie Kosky's Agrippina is finally crowned at DNO

Eleanor Knight, 13th January

The Australian director's 2019 production of Handel's satirical comedy-thriller arrives in Amsterdam, with a cast led by the fabulous Stéphanie d'Oustrac.

****1

Sacred, secular... and stylish: Accademia Bizantina celebrates Vivaldi

Mark Pullinger, 9th April

Two concerts at Milton Court intersperse The Four Seasons with concertos from L'estro armonico and sacred cantatas featuring countertenor John Holiday.

****1

Enescu Festival sheds light on another 18th-century gem

Edward Sava-Segal, 8th September

In the Bucharest performance, the individual vocal contributions were consistently good, with some really standing out.

****1

Giulio Cesare in concert: Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth came, saw and conquered Vienna

Orsolya Gyárfás, 18th October

An outstanding cast under Ottavio Dantone at the Theater an der Wien was headed by Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth.

****1

Intimate devotion to a lamenting mother

Olivia Bell, 14th March

Joined by the exquisitely subtle Accademia Bizantina led by Alessandro Tampieri, Scholl brought little-known but no less great devotions to the Virgin Mary to life with impetus and intimacy.

****1

Writing on walls: Handel’s Belshazzar in Oslo

Aksel Tollåli, 7th March

Ottavio Dantone, the Accademia Bizantina and the Norwegian Soloists' Choir gave a strong performance of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar.

****1

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Philippe Ramin

Claveciniste formé auprès de Béatrice Berstel et Christophe Rousset à Paris et de Jesper Christensen à la Schola Cantorum de Bâle, Philippe Ramin a été accompagnateur au Centre de Musique Ancienne de Tours et au Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, tout en jouant avec diverses formations de la scène baroque : « l’Eclat des Muses », l’ensemble « XVIII-21 le Baroque Nomade » ainsi que la Maîtrise de Radio France avec Sofi Jeannin. Critique musical à Répertoire puis à Diapason depuis 2000, il enseigne actuellement le clavecin, la basse continue et la musique de chambre au Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental d’Évry.

Galou et Tampieri envoûtent La Chaise-Dieu : les sortilèges de l'Accademia Bizantina