The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: a sense of novel wonder

Por Edward Whitney, 26 mayo 2014

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Crítica hecha desde St George's Bristol, Bristol el 23 mayo 2014

Corelli, Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 no.1

Vivaldi, Sinfonia for strings in B minor, RV 169 "Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro"

Beamish, Spinal Chords

Bach, Concierto para violín en la menor, BWV1041

Handel, Concerto Grosso in A major, Op.6 No.11, HWV 329

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Matthew Truscott, Dirección musical, Violín

Juliet Stevenson, Narración

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.

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Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

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.

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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.

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Edward Whitney

Edward is a trombonist, writer and critic based in Reading. He has an interest in small-scale arts projects and assists with a number of grassroots music groups. He is a supporter of amateur music and participation at every level.