Bartoli in Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis, 25 November 2013

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 22 November 2013

Vanhal, Symphony in G minor

Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Deh per questo istante solo

Mozart, Scena and Rondo for Soprano, "Ch'io mi scordi di te?", K505

Kraus, Olympia, Incidental music, VB 33: Overture

Haydn, Berenice, che fai, Hob XXIVa:10, cantata for soprano & orchestra

Haydn, Symphony no. 13 in D major

Haydn, L'anima del filosofo: Al tuo seno fortunato

Haydn, Symphony no. 52 in C minor

Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio

Mysliveček, Il Medonte: Overture

Mysliveček, La Clemenza di Tito: Se mai senti

Mozart, Exsultate, jubilate, K165 (K158a)

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-soprano

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Schumann v Schumann: a surprise victor in Vienna concerto play-off

Mark Pullinger, 11th February

Alexandra Dovgan plays piano concertos by Clara and Robert Schumann at the Konzerthaus, but it's the Kammerorchester Basel's performance of a forgotten symphony which most impresses.

****1

Handel's somewhat rare oratorio Susanna in the Halle Handel Festival

Sandra Bowdler, 14th June

Handel's oratorio Susanna is often considered to be less than consistently dramatic and this performance in the Halle Handel Festival did little to dispel that view.

***11

Swish playing from a Swiss orchestra

Dominic Lowe, 20th November

Heinz Holliger conducted a fine interpretation of Schubert's Ninth, but it was Stephen Hough's performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that really made the evening.

****1

Daniel Hope and the Basel Chamber Orchestra

Mark Valencia, 18th April

Hope can spin high-lying musical phrases with a sweetness and suspension that few of his contemporaries can match.

****1

Sol Gabetta a stylish soloist with the Basel CO

David Larkin, 29th November

The final stop on the Basel Chamber Orchestra's Australian tour at the Sydney Opera House saw Sol Gabetta in fine fettle as soloist in Cello Concertos by Saint-Saëns and the Latvian Vasks.

***11

Mozart disappoints, but Rameau and Bizet compensate

David Pinedo, 25th July

It was an evening for showing off. The Basel Chamber Orchestra (being Bartoli and Scholl’s frequent partners) performed Bizet and Rameau, plus a Mozart concerto with conductor Christian Zacharias directing from the piano.

***11

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Rosemary Carlton-Willis

Rosemary Carlton-Willis is a soprano based in the Netherlands. She has one masters degree in Music (Historical Performance) from the University of York, and a second in Singing from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she studied in both the Classical and Early Music departments. She has worked for the York Early Music Festival, the National Centre for Early Music and the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall.

Cecilia Bartoli excels herself at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam