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Début de saison inégal aux Violons du Roy dans trois magnificats de la famille Bach livrés avec fougue, mais appelant plusieurs réserves en matière interprétative.

Pour la dernière soirée du Spitalfields Music Summer Festival, programme Haydn/J.C. Bach/Mozart/Haendel à Shoreditch Church, par le City of London Sinfonia et le chœur Polyphony dirigés par Stephen Layton : une clôture de festival réussie.

Une promenade musicale mettant en lumière les filiations musicales d'une grande dynastie de musiciens, entre héritage et modernité, école allemande et italienne, baroque et prémices du Romantisme.

Ein Hammerklavier zeigt seine ganze Bandbreite inmitten eines spritzig-espritvollen Orchesters.

Über ein Konzert von W. F. Bach 1774 gibt es zu lesen: „Alles was die Empfindung berauscht, Neuheit der Gedanken, frappante Ausweichungen, dissonierende Sätze...“. Bei La Scintilla und Minasi galt selbiges.

Kristian Bezuidenhouts Fortepiano-Spiel und Leitung des Zürcher Kammerorchesters sind faszinierend und meisterhaft.

An evening at the Wigmore Hall with the fabulous Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and fortepiano star Kristian Bezuidenhout in the keyboard concertos of CPE Bach and Mozart. What could go wrong? 

The conductorless  Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and violinist Pinchas Zuckerman, however, presented an evening of music loosely connected across several centuries, effectively pressing shuffle on the classical music jukebox.  

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. 

The orchestra's principal cellist Mark Kosower gave a performance of Haydn's Concerto in C notable for its transparency and grace at this late summer Blossom Festival concert.

J.C. Bach's opera Adriano in Siria, set to a popular libretto by Metastasio, was first performed in London in January 1765 when the nine-year-old Mozart was in town.

The night got off to a very classical, Viennese start when Vladimir Fedoseyev took the stage of the golden hall on Saturday night at the Musikverein.

Celebrating the music of an iconic family that bridged the height of the Baroque period with the Classical era, conductor Christopher Gray and his Three Spires Singers set the evening ablaze with J.S. Bach's Magnificat and two works by the composer's prodigious children: the Sinfonia Concertante in A by J.C. Bach and C.P.E Bach's exuberant Magnificat.

Those happy to brand the British Isles as the "land without music" for the time between Purcell and Britten might have cause to rethink if they audited the vintage of London of the late 1760s. Johann Christian Bach, the youngest of Johann Sebastian's sons, moved to England in 1765, helped along by the expatriated Carl Friedrich Abel, with whom he shared a house on Meard Street in Soho.