Excellence from the AAM – but does the King really dance?

Par David Karlin, 19 avril 2024

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“immediately, the sheer beauty of the AAM’s sound palette became evident”

Critique faite à Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Milton Court Concert Hall, Londres, le 18 avril 2024

Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV43: Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs

Rebel, Les Caractères de la Danse

Marais, Les Folies d'Espagne

Delalande, Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy (excerpts)

Jacquet de la Guerre, Céphale et Procris: Suite

Lully, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Chaconne des Scaramouches, Trivelins et Arlequins

Academy of Ancient Music

Laurence Cummings, 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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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

Excellence from Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music – but does the King really dance?