Handel with a back beat

By Hedy Mühleck, 19 April 2015

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Reviewed at Kongresshaus Stadthalle, Heidelberg on 17 April 2015

Cazzati, Ciaccona

Purcell, Oedipus: Music for a While, Z 583 no.2

Purcell, A Scotch Tune: within a furlong of Edinburgh Town Z 605 no.2

Matteis, La Dia Spagnola

Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus: A Prince of glorious race descended

Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629: One charming night

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Ah! Belinda

Purcell, Harmonia Sacra: An Evening Hymn on a ground

Purcell, Come, ye Sons of Art, Z 323: Strike the Viol

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth"

Purcell, Hail! Bright Cecilia, Z.328: Wondrous machine!

Purcell, Dioclesian: Two upon a ground

Purcell, Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day): Here the Deities approve, Z 339

Purcell, Man is for the woman made, Z 605 no.3

Purcell, Timon of Athens, Z 632: Curtain Tune

Purcell, The Fairy Queen, Z 629:The Plaint

Purcell, Timon of Athens, Z 632: Hark! How the Songsters

L'Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar, Leader

Céline Scheen, Soprano

Vincenzo Capezzuto, Contralto

Gianluigi Trovesi, Clarinet

25 years on, Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata entrance Ambronay

David Karlin, 5th October

The superstar countertenor revisit the site of one of their early successes, with hits from Monteverdi and the court of Louis XIII. It makes for an extraordinary evening.

*****

Pluhar leads a great Monteverdi Vespers from L'Arpeggiata

Roy Westbrook, 14th December

An outstanding performance from Christina Pluhar's army of generals, but a flawed Barbican live stream.

****1

L’Arpeggiata brings the spirit of Italian Baroque to Enescu Festival

Edward Sava-Segal, 10th September

A radiant chemistry between Céline Scheen and Philippe Jaroussky is evident in an evening of Caldara and Pergolesi in Bucharest.

****1

L'Arpeggiata jazzes up Purcell in Auckland

Simon Holden, 15th March

While maybe not for the musical puritans, this was the perfect showcase for an exceptional group of musicians to demonstrate their formidable technical and interpretative talents and to respectfully give some new vitality to the magical works of Purcell.

****1

La dama d'Arago: L'Arpeggiata

Frances Wilson, 21st December

L’Arpeggiata brought the sensuous heat and vibrancy of Catalonia to London's Wigmore Hall in a concert featuring songs and music from the Aragon region of Spain.

****1

An inventive Dido and Aeneas in Utrecht

David Pinedo, 5th September

A refreshing, unconventional reworking of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by L'Arpeggiata in Utrecht.

****1

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Hedy Mühleck

Hedy is a former Bachtrack German Editor and Press Liaison. She's a musicologist, a great fan of British music of the 19th and 20th century, a folk musician, bibliophile and a coffee and tea aficionado. She also likes singing, cats, and to make all kinds of sweet treats.

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