Neu und überraschend: Das VIBE in Mdina

By Jens Klier, 24 January 2018

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Reviewed at Metropolitan Cathedral / St Paul's Cathedral, Mdina on 21 January 2018

Vella, Sonata

Abos, Stabat Mater

Balzano, Jubila Propera Festina

Valletta International Baroque Ensemble

Francesca Aquilina, Soprano

Nadia Debono, Violin

Gillian Zammit, Soprano

Clare Ghigo, Mezzo-soprano

Bach's St John’s Passion an impressive festival opener in Valletta

David Smythe, 11th January

The St John Passion with period instruments is a huge undertaking, but this performance marks a strong start to this year’s Valetta Baroque Festival.

****1

An intravenous injection of Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires at the Vaults

David Karlin, 13th May

Piazzolla's "tango operita" is confusing, weird but full of the unique character of his music, performed superbly by an orchestra which mixes jazz and classical feel.

***11

Girolamo Abos' Stabat Mater in Valletta

Anthony Hart, 16th January

Abos' Stabat Mater is given an enthusiastic response at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

****1

Les Bougies Baroques present some 18th-century secrets in Malta

Anthony Hart, 10th May

Picture a warm May evening, walking the narrow, silent, cool streets of the ancient capital of Malta, then sitting amongst a magnificent collection of 17th- and 18th-century art with a promise of secrets!This was the setting for a concert – no, in fact, a spectacular – held on Friday 10 May at the Cathedral Museum, Mdina.

****1

Valletta International Baroque Festival: Jeune Orchestre Atlantique revives Maltese music

Anthony Hart, 15th January

If we consider the word “festival” and its synonym “feast”, the Valletta International Baroque Festival, which started on 9 January and continues to 26 January, has proven to be a sumptuous feast, nay, a veritable banquet.The festival has brought Baroque music to a Baroque city. It is the city’s first, hopefully not the last, festival of music of the Baroque period.

****1

Bach's St John’s Passion an impressive festival opener in Valletta

David Smythe, 11th January

The St John Passion with period instruments is a huge undertaking, but this performance marks a strong start to this year’s Valetta Baroque Festival.

****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'.

Neu und überraschend: Das Valletta Internationale Baroque Ensemble bei 50 Jahre Cathedral Archives in Mdina