Messias mit dem King's Consort in Essen

By Jens Klier, 19 December 2017

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“die Trompeten erweckten die Hoffnung auf eine höhere Temperatur in dieser Weihnachtsbäckerei”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Alfried Krupp Saal, Essen on 18 December 2017

Handel, Messiah

Lorna Anderson, Soprano

Hilary Summers, Mezzo-soprano

Joshua Ellicott, Tenor

David Wilson-Johnson, Bass

The King's Consort

Robert King, Conductor

Festkonzert with Carolyn Sampson: Handel's Heroines

Sandra Bowdler, 13th June

Carolyn Sampson returns joyfully to the Halle Handel Festival, accompanied by trumpeter Neil Brough and the King's Consort under Robert King.

****1

Fitting Handel like a glove

Travis Mason, 14th January

Iestyn Davies and The King's Consort a real highlight at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

****1

An Acis and Galatea without sparkle in Versailles

Vesna Gerintes, 28th June

Handel’s original version of Acis and Galatea was written in 1717–18 at Cannons, a stately home in Middlesex. Composed with light orchestration, it was not meant to be performed in an opera theatre, but rather in this private mansion.

**111

The King's Consort delights Dutch audience with works from Henry Purcell's English court

Kristen Huebner, 25th April

All too often opera in concert is presented in its most basic format, without the theatricality and staging so characteristic to its execution. However, when a presentation comes along from the likes of The King’s Consort, you can be sure that justice will be served, even without the smoke and mirrors we’ve all grown to love.

****1

The Fairy Queen at the Theater an der Wien

Zwölftöner, 1st March

The ‘semi-opera’ was an English musical and spoken theatre hybrid which by the end of the 17th century had begun to scrape the bottom of Restoration drama’s literary barrel, and by the 18th had been rendered obsolete by efforts to introduce the English to formal opera from the continent.

****1

The King's Consort: Musical Oysters at Wilton's Music Hall

James Potter, 14th February

'Romantic' is a term normally applied to heart-on-sleeve 19th-century music, but this evening's concert had me convinced that the real music of love is baroque. The venue was well-chosen for this evening of musical oysters; Wilton's Music Hall is beautiful, intimate and yet grandiose.

****1

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Jens Klier

Vor seinem Rechtswissenschafts-Studium in Bayreuth und Bonn widmete sich Jens Klier seit frühester Kindheit musikalisch der Violine (Repertoire vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert). Während er zudem mit Gesang und dem Leben im Orchesterbetrieb groß wurde, entwickelte sich ein besonderes Interesse an der sogenannten 'Historischen Aufführungspraxis' und authentischen Instrumenten. Diese Leidenschaft hält sich hartnäckig, sodass er sie mit Vorliebe für das Barocke anstatt mit Finger und Bogen nun in Form der Musikkritik zu Gehör bringt. U.a. Telemann-Fan, Liebhaber J. S. Bachs Genies und Entdecker neuerer, seltenerer 'Alter Musik'.

Aus der Weihnachtsbäckerei in Essen: Messias mit dem King's Consort