Saint and Sinner in Cambridge

By Rohan Shotton, 15 April 2018

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“one of the most brilliantly conceived programmes I have witnessed”

Reviewed at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge on 12 April 2018

Haydn, Symphony no. 93 in D major

Dussek, Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.49

Dussek, 6 Gesange for Voice and Fortepiano: Sehnsucht der Liebe

Dussek, 6 Gesange for Voice and Fortepiano: Hoffnung

Dussek, 6 Gesange for Voice and Fortepiano: Das Warum

Haydn, Symphony no. 94 in G major "Surprise"

Daniela Lehner, Mezzo-soprano

Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, Fortepiano, Director

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

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.

*****

Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums

Mark Pullinger, 26th March

Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

***11

Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

Stephen Pritchard, 12th February

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

*****

Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 18th April

The greatest music of the 18th century – no arguments, please – is given a fine reading at London's Barbican.

****1

Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Charlotte Gardner, 16th December

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican.

****1

Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two

Roy Westbrook, 9th October

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!

****1

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Rohan Shotton

Rohan has reviewed concerts and opera across the UK and Europe, but chiefly in Manchester, where he enjoys conducting and playing percussion and piano. He works as a hospital doctor, having studied in St Andrews and Manchester, and tweets as @RohanShotton.

Saint and Sinner: the Academy of Ancient Music in Cambridge