L’Arpeggiata brings the spirit of Italian Baroque to Enescu Festival

By Edward Sava-Segal, 12 September 2021

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Reviewed at Romanian Atheneum (Ateneul Român), Bucharest on 10 September 2021

Caldara, Sinfonia no. 12 in A minor "La Passione del Gesu Signor Nostro"

Caldara, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo: Per il mar del pianto mio

Caldara, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo: Só, lieti festeggiate

Caldara, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo: Pompe inutili

Caldara, La morte d'Abel: Quel buon pastor

Caldara, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo: In lagrime stemprato

Handel, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a: Lascia la spina

Pergolesi, Stabat Mater

Philippe Jaroussky, Countertenor

Céline Scheen, Soprano

L'Arpeggiata

Christina Pluhar, Theorbo, Director

25 years on, Jaroussky and L'Arpeggiata entrance Ambronay

David Karlin, 5th October

The superstar countertenor revisit the site of one of their early successes, with hits from Monteverdi and the court of Louis XIII. It makes for an extraordinary evening.

*****

Pluhar leads a great Monteverdi Vespers from L'Arpeggiata

Roy Westbrook, 14th December

An outstanding performance from Christina Pluhar's army of generals, but a flawed Barbican live stream.

****1

L'Arpeggiata jazzes up Purcell in Auckland

Simon Holden, 15th March

While maybe not for the musical puritans, this was the perfect showcase for an exceptional group of musicians to demonstrate their formidable technical and interpretative talents and to respectfully give some new vitality to the magical works of Purcell.

****1

La dama d'Arago: L'Arpeggiata

Frances Wilson, 21st December

L’Arpeggiata brought the sensuous heat and vibrancy of Catalonia to London's Wigmore Hall in a concert featuring songs and music from the Aragon region of Spain.

****1

An inventive Dido and Aeneas in Utrecht

David Pinedo, 5th September

A refreshing, unconventional reworking of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by L'Arpeggiata in Utrecht.

****1

Handel with a back beat

Hedy Mühleck, 17th April

L'Arpeggiata fascinate, amuse, move to tears - in not even two hours.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

L’Arpeggiata brings the spirit of Italian Baroque to the Enescu Festival