O/MODƏRNT at Wigmore Hall: A descent into melodrama

By Olivia Bell, 09 April 2018

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“a collective grief, a communal consolation”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 7 April 2018

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth"

Rameau, Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin: L'enharmonique

Purcell, The Staircase Overture, Z614

Monteverdi, Lamento d'Arianna

Berg, Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.1

Strauss R., Metamorphosen (Arr for string septet)

O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra

Hugo Ticciati, Violin, Director

Luciana Mancini, Mezzo-soprano

Natacha Kudritskaya, Piano

Christoph Sommer, Theorbo

Brahms unpacked by Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt

Charlotte Gardner, 26th January

Soprano Cornelia Beskow and accordionist Leo Florin join O/Modernt for a night of gypsy vim and Viennese swing at Wigmore Hall.

*****

Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt completely infectious at Kings Place

Chris Garlick, 21st September

Freshness, enthusiasm and excellent curation made for an entertaining evening courtesy of Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt.

*****

Brahms unpacked by Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt

Charlotte Gardner, 26th January

Soprano Cornelia Beskow and accordionist Leo Florin join O/Modernt for a night of gypsy vim and Viennese swing at Wigmore Hall.

*****

From the darkness, Karine Polwart and the SCO seek the light

David Smythe, 10th March

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra directed by Hugo Ticciati premiere Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy’s Seek the Light, performed as a thread with contemporary string works.

****1

Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt completely infectious at Kings Place

Chris Garlick, 21st September

Freshness, enthusiasm and excellent curation made for an entertaining evening courtesy of Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt.

*****

Three concerts and the magic mountain’s Sunday rest in Davos

Sarah Batschelet, 5th August

The “Festival Tour” and its three-venue concerts of the Davos Festival programme included almost as many visual and outdoor delights as it did musical treats.

****1

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Olivia Bell

Olivia has recently graduated as Senior choral Scholar from Queens' College, Cambridge, where she read English and became Culture Editor at the Tab. A freelance soprano, she currently works as a content editor at the Telegraph.