Carolyn Sampson steps in as Cleopatra to save Wigmore season opener

Por Mark Pullinger, 08 septiembre 2022

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

Crítica hecha desde Wigmore Hall, Londres el 8 septiembre 2022

Graun, Cleopatra e Cesare: Sinfonia

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

Legrenzi, Antioco il grande: Se tu sarai felice

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Overture

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

Vivaldi, Concerto for strings in G minor, 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 minor "La Follia", Op.5 no.12

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

Hasse, Antonio e Cleopatra: Morte, col fiero aspetto

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

Carolyn Sampson, Soprano

La Folia Barockorchester

Zsuzsanna Czentnár, Violín, Dirección musical

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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El nuevo Réquiem de Masato Suzuki: Bach Collegium Japan en Madrid

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 22nd January

El excelente conjunto Bach Collegium Japan, por primera vez de la mano de Ibermúsica, presentó un programa dedicado a Mozart y contó con la dirección de Masato Suzuki.

*****

Suzuki engrandece la Pasión según San Juan en Festival de Santander

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 10th August

El Bach Collegium Japan recreó en el Palacio de Festivales la profundidad emocional y musical de la obra de Bach bajo la dirección de Masaaki Suzuki y el protagonismo de unos excelsos solistas.

*****

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