Joshua Bell and the ASMFs at the top of their game in Boston

Par Kevin Wells, 27 février 2020

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“the mirthful exuberance of the final movement ended the concerto with a wink and a grin”

Critique faite à Symphony Hall, Boston, le 23 février 2020

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (Les Noces de Figaro), K492: ouverture

Paganini, Concerto pour violon et orchestre no. 1 en ré majeur, Op.6

Brahms, Symphonie no. 4 en mi mineur, Op.98

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Joshua Bell, Violon, Direction musicale

Purcell et Locke s’égarent à St Martin in the Fields

Philippe Ramin, 22nd April

La rencontre entre John Butt et l'Academy of St Martin in the Fields est un rendez-vous manqué, à peine rattrapé par la belle interprétation de pièces d'Errollyn Wallen.

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Julia Fischer au Victoria Hall

Thomas Muller, 23rd April

Soirée contrastée ce jeudi soir, avec l’Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields qui nous proposait le Concerto pour violon de Haydn, le Concerto pour violon et piano en ré mineur de Mendelssohn et La Nuit transfigurée de Schönberg, sous la direction de Julia Fischer.

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Joshua Bell and the ASMF thrill in Schumann and Brahms

Mark Valencia, 20th January

At Cadogan Hall, Bell’s account of Robert Schumann’s Spring Symphony is as sunny an interpretation as you’re likely to hear.

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A snowbound evening with Joshua Bell: comfort and unease in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 8th January

Amid snowbound Hamburg, Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields with warmth and lyricism, though Brahms’ concerto reveals limits, while Schumann’s symphony fully blossoms.

***11

Highly individual Mozart from Buniatishvili

Nick Boston, 9th December

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields give exciting performances at the Barbican, with idiosyncratic Mozart from Buniatishvili.

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Handel's Messiah overpowered by massed forces at the Proms

Nick Boston, 7th September

Massed choral forces, a strong solo line up and expanded orchestral forces overpower Handel at the end of the BBC Proms Choral Day.

***11

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Kevin Wells

Kevin Wells was bitten by the opera bug at 10, having heard a 1936 recording of Jussi Björling singing “Che gelida manina”. He has never been the same since. A student of voice, performance practice, the history of singing and opera, he holds advanced degrees in Italian and has lived and worked in Italy off and on since the 70s. La Scala became a second home as the Met had been during college daze. Now in his native Boston, he works as translator, tutor, and language coach, haunts Symphony Hall, and would haunt the Opera House had it not been demolished in 1958!

Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the top of their game in Boston