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Gardiner acts as guide through Mozart's last three symphonies

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 17 January 2016

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Reviewed at Bristol Beacon: Beacon Hall, Bristol on 15 January 2016

Mozart, Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K543

Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550

Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor

English Baroque Soloists

A rare Handel pastoral ode at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 26th October

Dinis Sousa conducts the combined forces of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

****1

Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists roll back the centuries

Roy Westbrook, 13th January

Refined if sometimes raucous pleasures from Haydn and Mozart as the EBS continues its European tour.

****1

Semele crashes and burns, but Louise Alder soars up at Ally Pally

Mark Pullinger, 2nd May

Rising like a phoenix, the Alexandra Palace Theatre stages its first opera since its reopening after eighty years of slumber.

****1

Gardiner steps into his Ring of Cantatas in Leipzig

Stephen Pritchard, 8th June

A taste of the opening weekend in Leipzig’s marathon Bach Festival.

****1

A religious experience at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 17th May

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Baroque specialists continue their crusade to bring Bach's church cantatas to the modern world.

****1

Evil triumphs beautifully in Monteverdi 450 Poppea

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 29th July

The final opera in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi 450 trilogy features an excellent cast and inspires deep emotion.

****1

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.