Valletta International Baroque Festival: Monteverdi's Vespers

By Anthony Hart, 25 January 2014

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Reviewed at St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Valletta on 18 January 2014

Monteverdi, Other (Vespers)

Valletta Baroque Festival Ensemble

Unity in diversity in Malta

Anthony Hart, 26th January

Young ensemble demonstrates their maturity at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

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Girolamo Abos' Stabat Mater in Valletta

Anthony Hart, 16th January

Abos' Stabat Mater is given an enthusiastic response at the Valletta International Baroque Festival.

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More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

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The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

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Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Max Lima, 21st May

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

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Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

Roy Westbrook, 21st May

Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” from Gustav Mahler.

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Anthony Hart

Anthony Hart, born in the UK, now lives in Malta. He was presented papers for Società Italiana di Musicologia and the International Musicological Society. He a Licentiate of the London College of Music. He has had papers published in Early Music, Studi Musicali and Fonti Musicali Italiane.

Monteverdi's Vespers at Valletta International Baroque Festival