Prom 73: Crisp and breezy late night Handel

Von Nahoko Gotoh, 11 September 2016

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“so many rubatos and slides that it verged on a parody of early 20th-century Baroque playing”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Albert Hall, London, am 8 September 2016

Händel, Zadok the Priest, HWV 258: God save the King

Händel, Coronation Anthem no. 3: My heart is inditing, HWV 261

Muffat, Armonico Tributo: Sonate Nr. 5 in G-Dur

Händel, Coronation Anthem no. 4: Let thy hand be strengthened; HWV 259

Bach, Orchestersuite BWV1068: Air auf der G-Saite ( arr. L. Stokowski)

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z626: Didos Klage "When I am laid in earth" (arr. L. Stokowski)

Händel, The King shall rejoice, HWV 265

Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, Musikalische Leitung

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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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.