Valletta International Baroque Festival: New Baroque music

By Anthony Hart, 31 January 2014

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Reviewed at St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Valletta on 25 January 2014

Handel, Nine German Arias (Deutsche Arien), HWV 202-10 (excerpts)

Festing, Sonata for Two Violins, Op.2

Telemann, Hemmet den Eifer, verbannet die Rach

Works by Bach

Camerata Galatea

Gillian Zammit, Soprano

Bach's St John’s Passion an impressive festival opener in Valletta

David Smythe, 11th January

The St John Passion with period instruments is a huge undertaking, but this performance marks a strong start to this year’s Valetta Baroque Festival.

****1

Enthusiasm and vitality brings the Malta PO season to a climax

Anthony Hart, 29th May

Schembri and the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra brings vitality, enthusiasm and maturity to the final concert of the season.

****1

Girolamo Abos' Stabat Mater in Valletta

Anthony Hart, 16th January

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

****1

Valletta Festival: Messiah

Anthony Hart, 10th January

A rousing opening to the Valletta International Baroque Festival: a performance of Handel’s Messiah.

*****

Neu und überraschend: Das VIBE in Mdina

Jens Klier, 21st January

Hingabe und zwei Überraschungen sorgten für eine interessante Feier der maltesischen Barockmusik beim Valletta Festival.

***11

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

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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.

Three “living memory” premières at the Valletta International Baroque Festival