Carolyn Sampson steps in as Cleopatra to save Wigmore season opener

Von Mark Pullinger, 08 September 2022

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“Cleopatra’s great ‘Se pietà’ was sung with tremendous dignity... and daringly scaled back dynamics”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wigmore Hall, London, am 8 September 2022

Graun, Cleopatra e Cesare: Sinfonia

Händel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Da tempeste

Legrenzi, Antioco il grande: Se tu sarai felice

Händel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Overture

Scarlatti, Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra: Antonio, e qual destino ... Vò goder senza contrasto

Vivaldi, Konzert für Streicher und Basso continuo g-Moll, RV 156

Vivaldi, Il Tigrane RV 740: Squarciami pure il seno

Hasse, Antonio e Cleopatra: Sinfonia

Scarlatti, Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra: Lascia, Antonio, deh lascia

Hasse, Antonio e Cleopatra: Quel candido armellino

Geminiani, Concerto grosso in d-Moll "La Follia", Op.5 Nr.12

Händel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Se pietà di me non senti

Hasse, Antonio e Cleopatra: Morte, col fiero aspetto

Händel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga

Carolyn Sampson, Sopran

La Folia Barockorchester

Zsuzsanna Czentnár, Violine, Direktor

Röstfrisch im Café Central: Theodora am MusikTheater an der Wien

Snapdragon, 23rd October

Stefan Herheim legt Händels Oratorium ins Wiener Café Central – verführerisch wie die Kuchenvitrine.

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Gestatten, Polon: Robin Johannsen bei den Arolser Barock-Festspielen

Jens Klier, 29th May

Wie vor Jahrhunderten bleibt es dabei: man feiert gebührlich; neu aber: in Arolsen mit einer Sopranistin, deren Name dank Johannsen und dem La Folia Barockorchester wieder strahlte.

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Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium am richtigen Platz bei Live from London

Jens Klier, 6th January

Paul McCreesh fand mit seinem Ensemble eine herzerwärmende Mischung universell wohltuender Festlichkeit.

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Paradiesische Zustände

Jens Klier, 18th October

Zum Auftakt der Herreweghe-Residenz vollbringen Solisten, Chor und Orchester in der Philharmonie Essen eine Glanzleistung.

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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.

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From chaos to joy: Haydn’s The Creation in Birmingham

Simon Cummings, 26th February

Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO and Chorus weave Baroque and Romantic allusions into Haydn’s Classical masterpiece, in a superb, at times operatic, performance at Symphony Hall.

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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.

Carolyn Sampson steps in as Cleopatra to save Wigmore Hall season opener