Seasonal gifts from the BBC Singers

Von Roy Westbrook, 23 Dezember 2018

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“as if they brought this music not from the rehearsal room but straight from the manger”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: St Luke's Church, Chelsea, London, am 22 Dezember 2018

Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV248: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage

Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend

Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen

Sofi Jeannin, Chorleitung

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Academy of Ancient Music

Suonare è danzare: Barocke Partnerwahl bei der AAM

Jens Klier, 12th February

Vor allem bei Händel hatten sich neue und alte Partner und Freunde gefunden, die in ihren Tanzschritten die momentane Schwere vergessen machten.

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Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums

Mark Pullinger, 26th March

Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

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Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

Stephen Pritchard, 12th February

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

*****

Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 18th April

The greatest music of the 18th century – no arguments, please – is given a fine reading at London's Barbican.

****1

Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Charlotte Gardner, 16th December

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican.

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

Seasonal gifts from the BBC Singers in Bach's Christmas Oratorio