Mozart playing of great fun and distinction

Par Peter Marks, 31 janvier 2015

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“Levin... would thrust and parry with his bare fists, draw phrases in the air”

Critique faite à Symphony Hall, Birmingham, le 29 janvier 2015

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

Mozart, Concerto pour piano no. 24 en ut mineur, K491

Mozart, Concerto pour piano no. 25 en ut majeur, K503

Mozart, Symphonie no. 35 en ré majeur, «Haffner», K385

Academy of Ancient Music

Robert Levin, Piano

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums

Mark Pullinger, 26th March

Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

***11

Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

Stephen Pritchard, 12th February

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

*****

Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 18th April

The greatest music of the 18th century – no arguments, please – is given a fine reading at London's Barbican.

****1

Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Charlotte Gardner, 16th December

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican.

****1

Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two

Roy Westbrook, 9th October

Ovid’s Metamorphoses makes an ideal curtain-raiser to the Academy of Ancient Music's new season, with works by Charpentier and Rameau conducted by Laurence Cummings... who also sings!

****1

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Peter Marks

Peter is founder and music director of Eroica Camerata, a Birmingham-based chamber orchestra. He is also a health professional by day.

Mozart playing of great fun and distinction from Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music