The Academy of Ancient Music play The Four Seasons in Hong Kong

By Alan Yu, 25 June 2013

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Reviewed at Hong Kong City Hall: Concert Hall, Hong Kong on 23 June 2013

Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione), Op.8 no. 1-4

Purcell, The Fairy Queen Z 629: Arias (and dances)

Handel, The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71: Like clouds, stormy winds them impelling

Handel, Ezio, HWV 29: Finche d'un Zeffiro Soave

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Da tempeste

Academy of Ancient Music

Pavlo Beznosiuk, Director, Violin

Elin Manahan Thomas, Soprano

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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

Academy of Ancient Music are inspired in Handel's Orlando

Roy Westbrook, 30th June

“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...

****1

Sons of England: a fresh look at English Baroque from the AAM

Susannah Moody, 30th May

Countertenor Reginald Mobley and the Academy of Ancient Music shine in an alternative history of English Baroque, with a new work by Roderick Williams.

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Alan Yu

The first concert Alan attended was Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. For 7 years he presented classical music programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong, partly to pay his way through university. He attends concerts whenever he can and believes there is no substitute for the thrill of live performances. He writes here.