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The vocal items in this programme were the most successful, driven as they were by Bauer's searing interpretations.

Overall a good performance of Handel's oratorio Esther at the Halle Festival, but some problems with the soloists unfortunately let it down.

Five star reviews are flowing Arcangelo’s way. It’s easy to see why. Five years after it was founded by Jonathan Cohen, the quality of this zestful ensemble just keeps soaring. 

Tonight's setting of Die Soldaten in a WWI stable is so sordid you can almost feel the rats gnawing. Alvis Hermanis was right to warn in a newspaper interview that we would leave the theatre feeling shocked.

The Rias-Kammerchor and the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin perform pieces by J.S. Bach, Handel and C.P.E. Bach.

Presenting Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in a single evening is audacious enough. To put on a Ring cycle in a week-end, you have to follow this by doing the same with Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, which requires something even more radical. Opéra de Dijon’s director Laurent Joyeux and dramaturg Stephen Sazio set themselves the task of cutting eight hours of music down to five.

Putting on a Ring cycle is normally considered a major undertaking for any opera company. For a mid-sized provincial opera company, the idea of staging the whole cycle in a weekend seems barely short of insane. But that’s what Opéra de Dijon are doing – Das Rheingold and Die Walküre last night, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung tonight, and it just had to be seen.

Une réussite sur toute la ligne pour La Création de Haydn, avec les Violons du Roy et la Chapelle de Québec sous la direction du chef Jonathan Cohen, qui a valu aux spectateurs des moments d'une beauté presque irréelle.

Christoph Spering und sein Neues Orchester präsentieren ein wackeliges „historisches“ Festkonzert bei Simmern5.

On est frappé par la complicité entre Thomas Bauer et Jos Van Immerseel, qui livrent avec un engagement sans faille un somptueux carnet de voyage au pays du lied schubertien.

Das Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg unter Nagano feierte bravourös Einstand in der Elbphilharmonie mit der Premiere von Jörg Widmanns Oratorium Arche.

Certainement ne manquait-il qu’une adhésion commune, une complicité partagée malgré les efforts et les tentatives des trois artistes. La magie n’était définitivement pas au rendez-vous cette après-midi…