New Beginnings and a message of hope in London Handel Festival opener

Von Mark Pullinger, 24 März 2022

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“the explosion of joy when the young choir burst in was palpable”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: St George's, Hanover Square, London, am 23 März 2022

Händel, Zadok, der Priestert: Krönungshymne Nr. 1, HWV 258

Händel, Organ Concerto in F major "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale", HWV 295

Händel, As pants the hart; Chandos Anthem No. 6, HWV 251b

Händel, Feuerwerksmusik, HWV351

Clyne, In Thy Beauty

Händel, Concerto Grosso in A major, Op.6 No.11, HWV 329

Händel, Ariodante, HWV 33: Dopo notte

Händel, Coronation Anthem no. 2: The King shall rejoice, HWV 260

Anna Starushkevych, Mezzosopran

Freya Barker, Sopran

National Youth Choir of Great Britain Chamber Choir

Academy of Ancient Music

Laurence Cummings, Direktor

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.

****1

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.

***11

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.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.