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AmsterdamCouperin’s Leçons de ténèbres [Christmas concert]
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Couperin, Marais
Maïlys de Villoutreys; Rachel Redmond; Isabelle Saint-Yves; Bertrand Cuiller
GlasgowHandel’s Messiah
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Handel: Messiah
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Peter Whelan; Rachel Redmond; Helen Charlston; Anthony Gregory; Ashley Riches
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A tale of two Glorias: Poulenc and Vivaldi with the SCO in Edinburgh
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Three sopranos, two Glorias and one French composer who isn’t great box office: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus sound great, but where is the audience?
Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two
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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!
Academy of Ancient Music are inspired in Handel's Orlando
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“A concert performance with neither scenery nor action would be a sacrilege,” wrote one authority of this opera. Nobody told the Academy of Ancient Music...
Gold medal for Irish National Opera's L’Olimpiade at Covent Garden
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Venetian Baroque opera once had a raison d'être of spectacular and complex stagings, but Daisy Evans makes us see that other ways are possible.
A triumphant Esther from Cummings at London Handel Festival
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A glorious Esther from Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Singers and Orchestra, with a classy line-up of soloists led by Nardus Williams and Tim Mead.
Emelyanychev and the SCO make Mozart magical in Edinburgh
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Maxim Emelyanychev, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus and a luxury cast of soloists enchant in a concert performance of The Magic Flute at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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Handel: Samson
Harry Bicket; The English Concert; Stuart Jackson; Paula Murrihy; Matthew Brook