Wilson and the OAE return a “not guilty” verdict

Por Benjamin Poore, 20 abril 2019

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“presented with the scantest of staging but with oodles of class”

Crítica hecha desde Queen Elizabeth Hall, Londres el 18 abril 2019

Sullivan, The Gondoliers: Overture

Sullivan, The Yeomen of the Guard: Is Life A Boon

Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance: Climbing over Rocky Mountains

Sullivan, Princess Ida: Minerva (Oh Goddess Wise)

Sullivan, Iolanthe: Overture

Sullivan, The Mikado: As some day it may happen

Sullivan, HMS Pinafore: Never mind the why and wherefore

Sullivan, Ruddigore: Painted Emblems of a Race

Sullivan, Ruddigore: When the night howls

Sullivan, HMS Pinafore: When I was a lad

Sullivan, The Gondoliers: Once more, Gondolieri

Sullivan, Trial by Jury

John Wilson, Dirección

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Louise Alder, Soprano

Robert Murray, Tenor

Simon Butteriss, Barítono

Michael Craddock, Bajo

Simon Bailey, Bajo

Choir 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

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.

****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

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Benjamin Poore

Benjamin Poore is a writer and critic. His book on psychoanalysis and literature is forthcoming in 2019. He has previously written about literature and culture for the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and Times Higher Education. In his spare time he tries to sing Schubert; he has a very patient teacher.

Silence in Court! John Wilson and the OAE return a “not guilty” verdict