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Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival
The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.
Baroque chestnuts served up by the OAE and Julia Bullock at 92NY
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and soprano Julia Bullock invite us to listen to familiar pieces with fresh ears in invigorating performances at New York's 92NY.
The OAE: why it's not wise to always see double
Sometimes streaming a concert unadorned with context or contrast is not enough.
Pallid Berlioz from the OAE
A disappointing pairing of Berlioz and Mendelssohn from a conductorless Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Many strings to their bows
The Baroque credentials of St John's Smith Square were thoroughly endorsed in a beautifully proportioned concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment directed by the doyenne of British Baroque violinists, Rachel Podger.
A Venetian expedition to the Pietà for the OAE
A recreation of the choral sound Vivaldi may have experienced at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice doesn't quite come off.