Many strings to their bows

Por Mark Pullinger, 25 noviembre 2015

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“Italian sunshine suffused St John’s during the... concerto from the Red Priest’s La Stravaganza”

Crítica hecha desde Smith Square Hall, Londres el 24 noviembre 2015

Bach, Concierto para violín en mi mayor, BWV1042

Vivaldi, L'estro armonico: Concerto for 2 violins, cello and strings in G minor, Op.3 no. 2, RV 578

Pisendel, Violin Concerto in G minor

Bach, Partita para violín núm. 2 en re menor, BWV1004: Chacona

Vivaldi, La stravaganza: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.4 no. 2, RV 279

Telemann, Concerto in G major for four violins, TWV 40:201

Bach, Concierto para 2 violines en re menor, BWV1043

Bach, Air on a G String, from Orchestral Suite BWV1068

Rachel Podger, Violín, Dirección musical

Matthew Truscott, Violín

Kati Debretzeni, Dirección musical

Margaret Faultless, Violín

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Una gran sinfonía para un gran final

David Santana Cañas, 30th May

Elgar, Strauss y el Sibelius más épico son el repertorio elegido por Ibermúsica para cerrar su Serie Barbieri de la mano de Thierry Fischer.

****1

Mixed Mozart from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Dominic Lowe, 26th February

A Mozart's of symphonies – his last – under conductor Robin Ticciati is capped with a fine Jupiter, but is let down by the performances of its two predecessors.

***11

Haydn pur: Sir András Schiff mit dem OAE in Dortmund

Jens Klier, 19th November

Die Melange aus bestimmter Lässigkeit und zwinkernder Süffisanz ließ bei neuerlichem Haydn dieser geistreichen Londoner Künstlergemeinschaft wieder kaum redensartliches Auge trocken.

****1

John Butt and the OAE celebrate Handel's Solomon

Roy Westbrook, 12th October

The Queen of Sheba is clearly in a hurry in this account of Handel's oratorio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

*****

Enescu Festival immersion: Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest

Peter Quantrill, 11th September

At the George Enescu International Festival, a pair of new shows crossing genres and reinventing the classics, with mostly enlightening results.

****1

Brandstrup Breaking Bach with the OAE at EIF

Kathy Elgin, 20th August

Kim Brandstrup choreographs Bach favourites based on hip hop and street dance. Lie back on the bean bags at Usher Hall and enjoy...

****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.

Many strings to their bows: Rachel Podger and the OAE