Prom 73: Crisp and breezy late night Handel

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 11 septembre 2016

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“so many rubatos and slides that it verged on a parody of early 20th-century Baroque playing”

Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 8 septembre 2016

Haendel, Zadok the Priest, HWV 258: God save the King

Haendel, Coronation Anthem no. 3: My heart is inditing, HWV 261

Muffat, Armonico Tributo: Sonata no. 5 in G major

Haendel, Coronation Anthem no. 4: Let thy hand be strengthened; HWV 259

Bach, Air sur la corde de sol, d'après la Suite pour orchestre BWV1068 ( arr. L. Stokowski)

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth" (arr. L. Stokowski)

Haendel, The King shall rejoice, HWV 265

Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, Direction

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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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.