A grande bouffe of early music

Por Jonathan Sutherland, 11 julio 2016

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Crítica hecha desde Rundāle Palace: White Hall, Rundāle el 9 julio 2016

Vivaldi, Concerto for lute and 2 violins in D major, RV 93

Bach, Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052

Corrette, Musette de cour

Rameau, Les Indes galantes

Pergolesi, Violin Concerto in B flat major

Orchestra Coin du Roi

Christian Frattima, Dirección

A meticulous musical makeover in Riga

Jonathan Sutherland, 7th July

Almost all the singers, orchestra and conductor were Italian, but it was local soprano Elīna Šimkus and the Latvian Radio Choir who sang Purcell’s magnum opus as if to the English manner born.

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Baroque rarities rapturously received in Riga

Jonathan Sutherland, 8th July

Local soprano Elīna Šimkus was a fascinating combination of Farinelli and Emma Kirkby.

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A meticulous musical makeover in Riga

Jonathan Sutherland, 7th July

Almost all the singers, orchestra and conductor were Italian, but it was local soprano Elīna Šimkus and the Latvian Radio Choir who sang Purcell’s magnum opus as if to the English manner born.

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Baroque rarities rapturously received in Riga

Jonathan Sutherland, 8th July

Local soprano Elīna Šimkus was a fascinating combination of Farinelli and Emma Kirkby.

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Coin du Roi’s Serse in Milan's Teatro Litta

Courtney Smith, 29th May

"Grab ’em by the throat and never let ’em go!" goes the famous quote by legendary Hollywood director Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard, Some like it Hot, and Double Indemnity among his masterpieces – who regularly dispensed stellar advice to aspiring, young writers. Unlike good screenwriting, opera’s blood and thunder decree doesn’t need much coaching to bare its jugular.

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Resonancias entre tiempos: viaje ulterior con Nicolas Altstaedt

Maria Sánchez, 19th April

Entre la variedad estilística y las diversas maneras de hacer, la música del violonchelista alemán desplegó un muestrario de posibilidades instrumentales en la intimidad monástica.

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Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.

A grande bouffe of early music at the spectacular Rundāle Palace