Small palette, big picture: Acis and Galatea

Por Charlotte Valori, 26 mayo 2016

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Crítica hecha desde West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge el 20 mayo 2016

Handel, Acis and Galatea (in the original Cannons version)

Richard Egarr, Dirección de escena

Rowan Pierce, Galatea

Andrew Tortise, Acis

Ashley Riches, Polyphemus

Edmund Hastings, Corydon

Gwilym Bowen, Damon

Academy of Ancient Music

Estimulante reinterpretación de los clásicos

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 18th November

Richard Egarr se puso al frente de la OSG para dar vida a un programa con los grandes nombres del clasicismo y primer romanticismo, recuperando la autenticidad y las emociones de unas músicas a las que imprimió una potente individualidad.

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Magistral Creación con Richard Egarr dirigiendo al Coro y la Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 4th March

Una soberbia interpretación que hizo justicia a la utopía humanista del sexagenario Franz Joseph Haydn

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Himmel und Erde: Nederlandse Bachvereniging mit der h-Moll-Messe

Jens Klier, 18th December

Durch manche stilistische Abweichungen und unzureichende Begegnung immanenter Ansatzrisiken kommt die Vorstellung insgesamt betrachtet nicht über eine eher mediokre Wirkung hinaus.

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Full-fat Four Seasons from Richard Egarr and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 22nd January

Two works by African American composers accompanied this 18th century music, now globally the most famous we have, which virtually disappeared until the middle of the last century.

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Lively Israel in Egypt from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

David Smythe, 1st December

Handel's chorus-heavy oratorio fielded a dream team of distinguished soloists.

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The Academy of Ancient Music reconnects us to a more genuine Messiah

Edward Sava-Segal, 19th December

Richard Egarr was able to put together a performance that – full of energy and dynamism – succeeded in bringing forward with great transparency, restraint and delicacy this score’s wonderful musical tapestry.

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Small palette, big picture: Handel's Acis and Galatea in Cambridge