When Haydn met Hendrix

By Pamela Nash, 26 September 2016

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“epitomises the Camerata's spirit of enterprise and burgeoning eclecticism”

Reviewed at Royal Northern College of Music: Concert Hall, Manchester on 24 September 2016

Rolling Stones/Daniel Schnyder, Sympathy for the Devil

Vaughan Williams, Oboe Concerto in A minor

Holst, St Paul's Suite, Op.29 no.2

Hendrix, Purple Haze Variations (Arr. Simon Parkin)

Haydn, Cello Concerto no. 1 in C major, Hob VIIb:1

Mozart, Symphony no. 29 in A major, K201 (K186a)

Manchester Camerata

Gábor Takács-Nagy, Conductor

Rachael Clegg, Oboe

Hannah Roberts, Cello

Energetic Mozart and Beethoven from Manchester Camerata

Leighton Jones, 23rd May

Continuing with their ‘Made in Manchester’ series of Mozart concertos in Stoller Hall, Manchester Camerata turn to the horn concertos with soloist Martin Owen.

****1

Bavouzet’s Manchester Mozart cycle reaches its epic peak

Leighton Jones, 20th September

All good things must come to end, but Manchester Camerata's Mozart piano concerto cycle did so in exceptional style in Stoller Hall.

*****

Aakash Odedra’s Songs of the Bulbul premieres in Edinburgh

Kathy Elgin, 9th August

Based around the Sufi myth of the bulbul, a bird said to sing more sweetly as it approaches death, Odedra's new work brings together North Indian Kathak dance, Sufi myth and Islamic poetry.

****1

OperaUpClose's Flying Dutchman becomes chillingly contemporary

Nick Boston, 7th July

OperaUpClose's vision of a dystopian England through Wagner's Flying Dutchman, distilled for chamber forces, receives strong performances from the cast and Manchester Camerata players.

***11

Manchester Camerata and Jess Gillam on superb form in Buxton

Peter Connors, 19th July

Two fascinating and hugely entertaining recent pieces started a superb concert by the strings of the Manchester Camerata, joined by Jess Gillam in Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto and the Brodsky Quartet in Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Tchaikovsky crowned the concert.

*****

More Mozart, made in Manchester from the Camerata

Rohan Shotton, 25th March

Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet tackle Mozart's Piano Concertos nos. 24 and 25 with the Manchester Camerata with their usual panache.

****1

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Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash, a Harkness Fellow, studied the piano and harpsichord in London, Paris and the USA and holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. She has curated several contemporary harpsichord music events, and was the director of the British Harpsichord Society's International Composition Competition in 2014. Pamela has contributed articles and reviews for Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Contemporary Music Review and Sounding Board and was the producer for the recently-released recording of contemporary works for harpsichord, "Shadow Journey", on the Prima Facie label.

When Haydn met Hendrix: Manchester Camerata juxtapose musical genres and icons at the RNCM