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Although filled with beauty and sweetly played, the fragmentation of the symphony felt too disruptive.

Soloists and choir, headed by a spellbinding Christian Gerhaher, brought real lustre to Schumann’s treatment of Goethe’s magnum opus.

A splendid cast led by Ann Hallenberg does justice to an integral version of Handel’s masterpiece under the baton of Ian Page.

This concert was inevitably the sum of far more than its parts, and not for nothing are the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiquem, regarded as among the best in the world

Jonathan Cohen leads a sensitive performance by Arcangelo, with a line-up of five outstanding lyrical voices. 

A concert performance of Arianna in Creta at the Halle Handel Festival riveted the audience with the towering talent of Ann Hallenberg and uniformly fine singing, acting and playing.

With Gardiner’s eye for detail, the LSO triumph in a concert that marks the start of a new Schumann symphony cycle.

Ann Hallenberg shines in an amazing cast in a concert performance of Handel's Ottone in Vienna. 

An unapologetic treat at the Proms and a composition of immediate appeal.

Ann Hallenberg dazzles at the Halle Handel Festival with a programme of newly discovered gems from the Venice Carnival of 1729.

Opera Vlaanderen revives a production of Handel's Agrippina based on American soap operas of the 1980s.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner rendered Elgar’s Second Symphony with broad, excessive, strokes, while Ann Hallenberg brought hushed intensity to Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder.

It's not his most commonly performed work, but with a crack team of vocal (and orchestral) soloists, Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra gave a fabulous account of Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio.

Philippe Herreweghe deftly coordinated the four vocalists, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and his Collegium Vocale Gent through Beethoven’s challenging score.

Collegium 1704 serves up a sumptuous Christmas confection with lush cantatas drawn from the dark pages of European history.

Superlative vocal and instrumental soloists, led by Michael Schade as a vividly intense Evangelist, impress in Bach’s St John Passion at the Concertgebouw.

The staging of Pierre Audi’s production of Handel’s Tamerlano at the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg is all understated elegance, well matched by Les Talents Lyriques’ refined playing.

Conductor Alan Curtis and musicologist Alessandro Ciccolini have successfully restored Vivaldi's opera Catone in Utica, and they brought it to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with a star performance from mezzo Ann Hallenberg.

The grand finale of this year's Montreal Bach Festival was the Mass in B minor with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano, joined by an impressive set of soloists.

Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt is one of those works that never gets performed with all the context in which it was composed. The two suites Grieg compiled are often played and well-loved, but Peer Gynt was in fact written as the music for the dramatization of Ibsen’s poem of the same title.

This was the second vocal concert of late (the last being Ariodante with Joyce DiDinato) to feature an exemplary female soloist caged inside an otherwise nondescript performance. Jérémie Rohrer tried in vain to force energy out of French chamber choir Les Elements and period ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie.

Un formidable plateau était réuni sur la scène du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées pour une version de concert de l'opéra de Haendel, sous la direction rythmiquement univoque de Christophe Rousset.

Sous la direction peu convaincante de Paul McCreesh, le Gabrieli Consort a livré un programme italien inégal, malgré l'incarnation brûlante de la mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg.

So macht Karneval auch für einen Nichtjecken Spaß: barocke Unterhaltung mit Eleganz, Klarheit und Klasse.

Mit dem Verdi-Requiem gelingt Gardiner mit dem ORR und dem Monteverdi Choir ein überwältigendes Totendrama.

Presenciamos un duelo de divas al estilo de los que daban en el Barroco. Las cantantes, Hallenberg y Genaux, combatieron en un formato dinámico y sugerente en el que, juzgados todos los elementos, la ganadora fue...

Für diese Huldigung konnte man sich kaum eine bessere Paarung vorstellen, da sie eine Färbung aus französischer Galanz und Ornamentik, deutscher Rhythmik- und Technik-Gründlichkeit und italienischem Feuer einbrachte.

L'orchestre et le chœur de santa Cecilia ont marqué la fin de la Semaine Sainte d'un grand moment de musique et de spiritualité avec ce bel hommage au Cantor de Leipzig. 

Gabrieli Consort & Players zelebrieren Händels Musik vorzüglich.

Mit Zingarellis Giulietta e Romeo stand am Pfingstsamstag eine eher unbekannte Vertonung der berühmten Shakespeare-Tragödie auf dem Spielplan, die eine Entdeckung durchaus wert ist.

Hengelbrock lieferte eine Erzählung, deren Ausbrüche große Spuren und langen Nachhall in den Gemütern der Zuhörer und der Aufführungspraxis hinterlassen haben.

Es gibt nur ganz wenige Erscheinungen, die dem Hörer die Lust am Singen dabei so natürlich und authentisch vermitteln wie die schwedische Mezzosopranistin...

L’Accademia organisait, ce mardi 4 novembre, un dynamique concert entièrement dédié à Antonio Vivaldi, dans la fameuse salle Santa Cecilia de l’Auditorium Parco della Musica de Rome. 

Philippe Herreweghe dirigeait l’Orchestre des Champs-Élysées au Théâtre du même nom dans les Kindertotenlieder de Mahler, chantés par Ann Hallenberg, et la Symphonie No. 4 de Brahms. Une soirée pleine de musicalité, parfois surprenante, toujours cohérente.