Vivaldi retourne sur les bords de Seine : la Senna Festeggiante à la Chapelle Corneille de Rouen

By Beate Langenbruch, 16 January 2017

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“voix formées, puissantes, [...] toujours solidement appuyées sur l’orchestre”

Reviewed at Chapelle Corneille - Auditorium de Normandie, Rouen on 11 January 2017

Vivaldi, La Senna festeggiante in C major, RV693

Karina Gauvin, Soprano

Sonia Prina, Mezzo-soprano

Ugo Guagliardo, Baritone

B'Rock Orchestra

Rodolfo Richter, Violin

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Beate Langenbruch

Incapable de départager musique et littérature dans sa vie, Beate a décidé de se consacrer passionnément aux deux. La maîtresse de conférences en littérature française (Moyen Âge) et soprano allemande parcourt le monde pour ses recherches comme pour chanter, avec son trio de musique de chambre, en soliste ou en choeur. Ses années d'expériences instrumentales (piano, flûte, guitare) n'ont que très modérément entravé son amour inconditionnel de la voix et du répertoire choral en particulier.