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Perth

18. Dez. 2025

The Dunedin Consort Messiah remains a welcome seasonal speciality

Von David Smythe

Leipzig 300: Dunedin Consort explores the Thomaskantor shortlist

Von David Smythe, 7. Februar 2024

The Dunedin Consort explores the 1723 Thomaskantor shortlist: Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Graupner and Johann Sebastian Bach in a programme directed by John Butt.

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Perth

7. Feb. 2024

Leipzig 300: Dunedin Consort explores the Thomaskantor shortlist

Von David Smythe

The RSNO and Dunedin Consort reflect troubled times in Songs of War I Have Seen

Von David Smythe, 13. Oktober 2023

Composed for Baroque and modern players with Gertrude Stein’s spoken text, Heiner Goebbels Songs of War I Have Seen in an intriguing performance conducted by Ellie Slorach.

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Perth

13. Okt. 2023

Troubled times reflected in Songs of War I Have Seen

Von David Smythe

Glasgow

An especially memorable Messiah from the Dunedin Consort in Glasgow

Von David Smythe, 14. Dezember 2022

John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort and a top team of soloists in St Mary's Cathedral for Handel's seasonal favourite.

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Glasgow

14. Dez. 2022

An especially memorable Messiah from the Dunedin Consort

Von David Smythe

Pure authenticity and enjoyment in Acis and Galatea from the Dunedin Consort

Von David Smythe, 22. Juni 2022

Rachel Redmond is a sweet voiced Galatea in the Dunedin Consort's performance of the Cannons version of Acis and Galatea in Perth.

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Perth

22. Juni 2022

Authenticity and enjoyment in Dunedin Consort's Acis and Galatea

Von David Smythe

Evangelical fervour: Dunedin Consort's St Matthew Passion at Wigmore Hall

Von Roy Westbrook, 12. April 2022

Tenor Nicholas Mulroy directs a one-voice-to-a-part account of Bach's St Matthew Passion, featuring some splendid singing.

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London

12. Apr. 2022

Evangelical fervour: Dunedin Consort's St Matthew Passion

Von Roy Westbrook

Trials of love told vividly by the Dunedin Consort in Edinburgh

Von David Smythe, 25. Februar 2022

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort are joined by Anna Dennis and Matthew Brook in “Trials of Love”, two Baroque cantatas illustrating the perils of infatuated love from Scarlatti and Handel.

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Edinburgh

25. Feb. 2022

Trials of love told vividly by the Dunedin Consort in Edinburgh

Von David Smythe

Good tidings of great joy from the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall

Von Benjamin Poore, 18. Dezember 2021

Handel's Christmas classic gets a fresh lick of paint from John Butt and colleagues.

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London

18. Dez. 2021

Good tidings of great joy from the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall

Von Benjamin Poore

Purcell and beyond: Errollyn Wallen’s dramatic new opera Dido’s Ghost

Von David Smythe, 6. Juni 2021

A dramatic new opera from Errollyn Wallen, with the Dunedin Consort, chorus and a strong cast including Isabelle Peters, Matthew Brook, Nardus Williams and Allison Cook.

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London

6. Juni 2021

Purcell and beyond: Errollyn Wallen’s dramatic new Dido’s Ghost

Von David Smythe

Purcell “Songes & Ayres” from the Lammermuir Festival

Von Linda Holt, 17. September 2020

Scotland's Dunedin Consort offers a radiant program of Purcell and his peers.

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Haddington

17. Sept. 2020

Purcell “Songes & Ayres” from the Lammermuir Festival

Von Linda Holt

Madrid

Los Conciertos de Brandeburgo en el Homenaje a Tomás y Valiente

Von Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 1. Februar 2020

La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid rinde homenaje a Francisco Tomás y Valiente con un programa integrado por los seis conciertos de Brandeburgo de Bach capitaneados por la dirección y el clave de John Butt.

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Madrid

1. Feb. 2020

Los Conciertos de Brandeburgo en el Homenaje a Tomás y Valiente

Von Jorge Baeza Stanicic

Prom 71: Bach Night with a modern twist

Von Nahoko Gotoh, 11. September 2019

During Henry Wood’s Prom years, Wednesday was Bach Night. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Proms revived this tradition in the final week with a couple of modern twists.

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London

11. Sept. 2019

Prom 71: Bach Night with a modern twist

Von Nahoko Gotoh

A flash of Bachian colour to see out the EIF’s Queen’s Hall season

Von Simon Thompson, 24. August 2019

John Butt’s musicians show that Bach’s secular cantatas have just as much to offer as the sacred.

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Edinburgh

24. Aug. 2019

A flash of Bachian colour to see out the EIF’s Queen’s Hall season

Von Simon Thompson

Reservoir Dogs of the harpsichord: EIF's series of Bach's keyboard concertos goes out with a bang

Von Simon Thompson, 22. August 2019

Ares, Butt, Egarr and Foster play brilliantly, but they're at their best when there's no orchestra.

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Edinburgh

22. Aug. 2019

Reservoir Dogs: EIF's Bach's series goes out with a bang

Von Simon Thompson

Halle

Samson is a great treat at the Halle Handel Festival

Von Sandra Bowdler, 27. Mai 2018

John Butt’s revisitation of the Handel oratorio Samson at the Halle Handel Festival displayed this treasured work in an illuminating and satisfying light.

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Halle

27. Mai 2018

Samson is a great treat at the Halle Handel Festival

Von Sandra Bowdler

An uplifting and joyous Christmas Oratorio from the Dunedin Consort

Von David Smythe, 15. Dezember 2017

Dunedin Consort’s band of virtuosi players, four Early music specialist soloists and just four ripieno singers gave a nimble and exquisitely focussed performance of the Christmas Oratorio simply bursting with enjoyment.

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Perth

15. Dez. 2017

A joyous Christmas Oratorio from the Dunedin Consort

Von David Smythe

Leipzig

Bach to basics at Bachfest Leipzig

Von Sam Johnstone, 11. Juni 2017

Three concerts over one day at the opening weekend of Bachfest Leipzig combined Bach’s music with that of composers from Rachmaninov to Sibelius, but nothing matches the unrivalled bliss of Bach’s own music performed with total conviction.

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Leipzig

11. Juni 2017

Bach to basics at Bachfest Leipzig

Von Sam Johnstone

Oslo

An almost all-Mozart programme closes the Oslo Church Music Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli, 26. März 2017

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort closed the Oslo Church Music Festival with fine performances of CPE Bach and Mozart, even though the concert didn't prove quite as innovative as advertised.

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Oslo

26. März 2017

Mozart closes the Oslo Church Music Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli

Valletta

Lessons in sin from the Dunedin Consort in Valletta

Von Jane Shuttleworth, 14. Januar 2017

Meditations from the Bach family on the human condition in "Cantatas for the soul" performed by the Dunedin Consort in Ta Giezu Church at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

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Valletta

14. Jan. 2017

Lessons in sin from the Dunedin Consort

Von Jane Shuttleworth

All the pleasures: Dunedin Consort honours St Cecilia's Day at Wigmore Hall

Von Roy Westbrook, 22. November 2016

The Dunedins venture south to show London how to play and sing Purcell.

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London

22. Nov. 2016

All the pleasures: Dunedin Consort honours St Cecilia

Von Roy Westbrook

Musselburgh

Lammermuir Festival: Cantatas, coffee and cake

Von Alan Coady, 13. September 2015

John Butt's Dunedin Consort in an illustration and exploration of coffee house culture in Bach's 1730s Leipzig.

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Musselburgh

13. Sept. 2015

Lammermuir Festival: Cantatas, coffee and cake

Von Alan Coady

A wonderfully nimble Messiah from the Dunedin Consort

Von David Smythe, 19. Dezember 2014

With only twelve singers, including the soloists, the Dunedin Consort gives an insight into what the first Messiah might have sounded like in Dublin's Musick Hall in 1742.

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Perth

19. Dez. 2014

A wonderfully nimble Messiah in Perth

Von David Smythe

Dunbar

Lammermuir Festival: Acis and Galatea

Von Alan Coady, 21. September 2014

John Butt and Dunedin Consort delight Dunbar Parish Church with Acis and Galatea

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Dunbar

21. Sept. 2014

Lammermuir Festival: Acis and Galatea

Von Alan Coady

Cantatas for the Soul: heavenly Bach at Wigmore Hall

Von Jack Johnson, 24. Juni 2014

An evening of music-making of great integrity and intelligence from renowned Bach expert John Butt and his dynamic ensemble.

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London

24. Juni 2014

Cantatas for the Soul: heavenly Bach at Wigmore Hall

Von Jack Johnson

Lammermuir Festival: Dunedin Consort in Mozart and C.P.E. Bach

Von Alan Coady, 22. September 2013

Since reading Stravinsky’s assertion (in Poetics of Music) that “The more constraint one imposes, the more one frees oneself from the chains that shackle the spirit”, this paradox has fascinated me.

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Haddington

22. Sept. 2013

Lammermuir Festival: Dunedin Consort in Mozart and C.P.E. Bach

Von Alan Coady

Dunedin Consort present the St Matthew Passion at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Von Alan Coady, 17. März 2013

Passion is not for the faint-hearted. This performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion weighed in at three hours (excluding interval). However, my attention did not waver, and this seemed true of the rest of enraptured audience.

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Edinburgh

17. März 2013

Dunedin Consort present the St Matthew Passion at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

Von Alan Coady

Lammermuir Festival: Dunedin Consort's St John Passion

Von Alan Coady, 14. September 2012

The motto of the Lammermuir Festival, now in its third year, is “beautiful music in beautiful places”. Few settings are more striking than St Mary’s Parish Church in Haddington.

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Haddington

14. Sept. 2012

Lammermuir Festival: Dunedin Consort's St John Passion

Von Alan Coady

Brandenburg/Cantata Series III: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady, 6. Mai 2012

The Dunedin Consort are, as I write, engaged in recording Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. On the eve of this undertaking, they presented the third and final part of their Brandenburg/Cantata series. The format of paired concerto and cantata in either half contained a novelty: this was the first time I'd heard the consort play a composer other than Bach.

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Edinburgh

6. Mai 2012

Brandenburg/Cantata Series III: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady

Brandenburg/Cantata Series II: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady, 7. Februar 2012

Contrasting vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular, the Dunedin Consort's 'Brandenburg/Cantata Series II' featured two of Bach's popular concerti grossi, flanked by a pair of sacred cantatas.Instrumental contrast distinguished the cantatas as much as the concerti.

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Edinburgh

7. Feb. 2012

Brandenburg/Cantata Series II: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady

Brandenburg/Cantata Series I: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady, 6. Januar 2012

There's nothing like a Brandenburg to blow away Christmas cobwebs. Alongside contrasting cantatas, the Dunedin Consort offered the 3rd and 5th from Bach's 1721 set of six concerti grossi. This made for a compact and nicely balanced programme, contrasting the sacred with the secular and vocal with purely instrumental timbres.

Edinburgh

6. Jan. 2012

Brandenburg/Cantata Series I: Dunedin Consort at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall

Von Alan Coady

Dunedin Consort and Players

Von Alan Coady, 25. September 2011

The Closing Concert of the Lammermuir Festival took place in the historic St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington – the site of John Knox's ordination as a Catholic priest, some years before the volte face which saw him spearheading the Scottish Reformation. An all-Baroque programme was presented by the Dunedin Consort, animatedly directed from the keyboard by John Butt.