L'Arpeggiata jazzes up Purcell in Auckland

By Simon Holden, 17 March 2017

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“an intriguing mix of the baroque and the modern”

Reviewed at Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall, Auckland on 15 March 2017

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

Improvisation, Canario

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

Céline Scheen, Soprano

Vincenzo Capezzuto, Contralto

Christina Pluhar, Conductor

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

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

Handel with a back beat

Hedy Mühleck, 17th April

L'Arpeggiata fascinate, amuse, move to tears - in not even two hours.

*****

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Simon Holden

Simon is an operaphile based in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote his dissertation on Japanese popular music. With a background in piano and classical music retail, he spends his time attending as much opera or vocal concert as he can and blogs at irishenceaway.blogspot.com.