Fabulous season opener from Iestyn Davies

By Jack Johnson, 16 September 2015

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Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 12 September 2015

Handel, Partenope, HVW 27: Overture

Handel, Partenope HWV 27: Sento Amor con novi dardi

Handel, Partenope, HWV 27: Furibondo spira il vento

Handel, Partenope HWV 27: Ch'io parta? Sì, crudele

Veracini, Overture no. 6 in B flat major

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV7: Cara sposa

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Venti turbini

Handel, Rodelinda, RWV19: Pompe vane di morte... Dove sei, amato bene?

Porpora, Sinfonia in G Major for Strings and Continuo, Op.2 no.1

Handel, Orlando, HWV31: Ah stigie larve (Mad scene)

Handel, Orlando, HWV 31: Già l'ebro mio ciglio

Handel, Orlando, HWV 31: Ma la furia

Handel, Orlando HWV 31: Vaghe pupille, non piangete

Handel, Radamisto, HWV 12: Passacaglia

Handel, Orlando HWV 31:Fammi combattere

Iestyn Davies, Countertenor

The English Concert

Harry Bicket, Director

A radically trad Fidelio at Garsington

Peter Quantrill, 27th June

Simple solutions prove the best in Beethoven's "problem" opera as John Cox's staging is revived at Garsington.

****1

Ravishing Rodelinda: Handel al fresco at Garsington Opera

Roy Westbrook, 13th June

Ruth Knight untangles Handel's Rodelinda, directing a new staging at Garsington which features a feast of fine singing.

****1

Rameau meets The Kardashians: Platée at Garsington

David Karlin, 29th May

A superb orchestral performance from Paul Agnew and The English Concert lights up a breezy and fun staging of Rameau's ballet bouffon.

***11

Handel's Brockes Passion resurrected by The English Concert

Roy Westbrook, 27th March

The London Handel Festival offers a chance to hear rarely performed music for Passiontide, with Harry Bicket conducting the English Concert.

****1

Heavenly Bach from Iestyn Davies at the BBC Proms

Leighton Jones, 25th August

With two cantatas for solo alto bookending the Third Brandenburg Concerto, The English Concert bewitches in this late-night all Bach programme.

****1

Top Mozart from Kristian Bezuidenhout and The English Concert

Mark Thomas, 7th June

A scintillating account of an all-Mozart programme at St Martin-in-the-Fields with a mighty concerto, a mightier symphony and one of his more unusual overtures.

*****

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Jack Johnson

After completing a postgraduate degree in Music at King's College London in 2013, Jack now works in development for an arts charity based in London. Aside from regularly attending concerts, he plays piano and clarinet and enjoys singing with several choirs. Particularly passions include Bach, Prokofiev and the neglected choral works of Hummel

Fabulous season opener from Iestyn Davies and The English Concert at Wigmore Hall