Maria Cristina Kiehr holds the York Early Music Festival spellbound

By Travis Mason, 19 July 2014

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Reviewed at National Centre for Early Music, York on 16 July 2014

Ariel Abramovich, Lute

Maria Cristina Kiehr, Soprano

Ex Cathedra's small scale Messiah

Travis Mason, 7th December

Ex Cathedra's Chorus in fine voice for a "small scale" Messiah in Birmingham.

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Monteverdi et Jordi Savall au Théâtre du Capitole pour lancer 2022

Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 10th January

Pour ce premier concert de l'année 2022, le Théâtre du Capitole proposait un retour aux sources avec un concert entièrement dédié à Monteverdi et à ses madrigaux, entre canti guerrieri et canti amorosi.

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Un incroyable message de paix et d'espoir.

Manuel Gaulhiac, 18th November

La musique de Monteverdi, par sa magnificence, mais aussi sa grande sérénité, nous a communiqué, ce soir-là, dans le contexte brûlant des attentats parisiens, un magnifique message de paix et d’espoir.

*****

Alexander Malofeev conjures sophistication at the Concertgebouw

Clare Varney, 10th May

Sitting low on the piano stool and with his head gently bobbing from side to side, this is music to listen to on repeat.

****1

Era-defining string sound in the Liverpool Phil’s Mahler 9

Rohan Shotton, 10th May

Domingo Hindoyan nears his five-year anniversary at the RLPO with Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

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Redemption and musical caffeine: Nelsons conducts Mahler 8 in Vienna

Mark Pullinger, 10th May

Sunday morning Mahler at the Wiener Konzerthaus sees Andris Nelsons concluding his symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic in shattering fashion.