Britten Sinfonia and Alice Coote celebrate Britten's birthday in style at Wigmore Hall

Por Evan Dickerson, 28 noviembre 2012

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Crítica hecha desde Wigmore Hall, Londres el 22 noviembre 2012

Purcell, Abdelazer, Z 570: suite (Rondeau)

Purcell, Let the Night Perish "Job's Curse", Z 191 (arr. Muhly)

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth" (arr. Stokowski)

Tippett, Variations on an Elizabethan Theme "Sellinger's Round": Variation 2 "Lament" (A lament)

Britten, Prelude and Fugue for 18 strings, Op.29

Purcell, Chacony in G minor, Z807 (arr. Britten)

Tippett, Little Music

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: excerpts

Britten, Phaedra, Op.93

Britten Sinfonia

Jacqueline Shave, Violín, Dirección musical

Alice Coote, Mezzosoprano

Richard Hetherington, Dirección

Memorable celebración de Thomas Adès y la Britten Sinfonia

Francisco Martínez Ramos, 10th June

Thomas Adès, una de las figuras más importantes y carismáticas del panorama musical británico e internacional, presenta un concierto en el Barbican Centre londinense, junto a la Britten Sinfonia.

*****

At Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool

Christopher Woodley, 13th June

For the Aldeburgh Festival's 75th anniversary celebrations, Daniel delivered a great performance of Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto, in the company of Gustav and Imogen Holst.

****1

Britten Sinfonia ablaze on the BBC Proms’ hottest night

Nick Boston, 6th September

Inventiveness, joyful performance and intuitive communication from Thomas Gould and the Britten Sinfonia in recompositions from Richter, Auerbach and Tippett.

*****

Donizetti's L’esule di Roma: a Roman triumph for Opera Rara

Dominic Lowe, 11th May

This is the 27th Donizetti opera given the Opera Rara treatment and their ability to spot a hidden gem remains as adroit as ever.

****1

Love and death in Scotland: Mercadante’s Il proscritto

David Karlin, 28th June

A great orchestral performance of an exciting score don't quite mask the dramatic weaknesses of Opera Rara's latest.

***11

Holst's Sāvitri: near-death experience in the Barbican

Roy Westbrook, 4th May

A game of three halves from the Britten Sinfonia, with a late appearance by three star soloists.