Stabat Mater at the Concertgebouw

By Nicolas Nguyen, 21 January 2014

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“Lezhneva's legato is so perfect that long musical phrases sounded like endlessly flowing honey”

Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 19 January 2014

Vivaldi, L'estro armonico: Concerto for 2 violins, cello and strings in D minor, Op.3 no. 11, RV 565

Vivaldi, Nisi Dominus, RV 608

Pergolesi, Stabat Mater

I Barocchisti

Diego Fasolis, Conductor

Philippe Jaroussky, Countertenor

Julia Lezhneva, Soprano

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An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

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Lorenzo Fiorito, 31st July

This production of Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso showed the audience what a Baroque opera is.

****1

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Dominic Lowe, 5th August

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*****

Bach in Gstaad: Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti

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Winter in the Swiss Alps: freezing temperatures and snow outside. A modest seventeenth-century church of elegant proportions, painted plasterwork and wood panelling. A dozen crack musicians, specialists in baroque music.

****1

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Nicolas Nguyen

Nicolas is a French Amsterdammer, e-commerce professional and a bit of an opera buff. His experience in the area of music is that of a dilettante. His passion for the opera and vocal music comes from his love for both music and languages which are so perfectly combined in these art forms.

Jaroussky and Lezhneva sing a beautifully moving Stabat Mater in Amsterdam