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GloucesterMonteverdi Vespers

© Dale Hodgetts
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine "Vespers of the Blessed Virgin" (1610)
La Serenissima; Samuel Hudson; Zoë Brookshaw; Daisy Bevan; Alexander Chance; Matthew McKinney

LondonBach’s Mass in B minor with Arcangelo

BBC Proms
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Jonathan Cohen; Jeanine De Bique; Eva Zaïcik; Hugh Cutting; Nick Pritchard

EdinburghBach St Matthew Passion

© Christopher Bowen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nick Pritchard; Matthew Brook; Hilary Cronin

GlasgowBach St Matthew Passion

© Christopher Bowen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nick Pritchard; Matthew Brook; Hilary Cronin

LondonIphigénie en TaurideNew production

© ENO
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
David Bates; Lyndsey Turner; English National Opera; Soutra Gilmour; Tim Mitchell; English National Opera Orchestra; Christine Rice

LondonLa Nuova Musica / David Bates / Nick Pritchard

Wigmore Hall
Buxtehude, Coult, Bach
David Bates; La Nuova Musica; Nick Pritchard
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Václav Luks and the OAE deliver operatic scale in Haydn’s Creation

Nick Pritchard, Václav Luks and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment © Mark Allan
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Václav Luks are joined by their own choir and strong soloists for a fresh and colourful performance of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung.
****1
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Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Helen Charlston, Rowan Pierce, Nick Pritchard and Ben Kazez with the AAM © Mark Allan
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. 
*****
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Les Arts Florissants play an abbreviated Christmas Oratorio in Paris

Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants © Vincent Pontet (2024)
Vigour and vibrato: Les Arts Florissant bring gallic refinement to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Philharmonie de Paris. 
****1
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Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music © Ben Ealovega
Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican. 
****1
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Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

Wallis Giunta (Dinah) © Marc Brenner 2024
Henry Neill gives a devastating performance as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in The Royal Opera’s Bernstein double bill in the Linbury Theatre. 
****1
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Bach cantatas, American spirituals, global calamity

Shall We Gather at the River? © Stephanie Berger
The Gospel according to Peter Sellars: an intermingling of Bach’s cantatas and American spirituals depicts an environmental message that the impending end won’t be personal, but global.
***11
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