Hidden Haydn: Soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 28 April 2012

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Reviewed at St George's Bristol, Bristol on 26 April 2012

Haydn, Flute Trio in D major, Op.38 no.1

Danzi, Duo in C minor for viola and cello

Haydn, Sonata no. 4 in C major for Violin and Viola MH338

Pleyel, Flute Quartet in D major, Op.25 no.1

Haydn, Flute Trio no. 1 in C major, "London", Hob IV:1

Soloists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Lisa Beznosiuk, Flute

Matthew Truscott, Violin

Tom Dunn, Viola

Jonathan Manson, Cello

Bohemian Winds from the OAE

Jack Johnson, 5th February

An accomplished technical display from the OAE's period wind ensemble which occasionally lacked personality.

***11

Baroque ABCs: Musicians from the OAE and John Butt at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 25th March

It can’t be often that one of the world’s pre-eminent Bach scholar-interpreters teams up with one of the world’s most famous period instrument ensembles to give a concert dedicated to one of the world’s most celebrated composers in one of the world’s most renowned acoustics.

****1

Nothing but Haydn: the OAE deliver with panache

Alexander Hall, 25th October

Who needs a conductor? The OAE under the direction of Matthew Truscott reveal the delightful range and character of Haydn, from his symphonic beginnings to the very end.

****1

Phantasm viol consort: Perilous polyphony

Jane Shuttleworth, 10th May

Fantasias for viol trio performed by members of Phantasm illustrate the inventiveness of England's best composers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

****1

Lammermuir Festival: Dunedin Consort in Mozart and C.P.E. Bach

Alan Coady, 22nd September

Since reading Stravinsky’s assertion (in Poetics of Music) that “The more constraint one imposes, the more one frees oneself from the chains that shackle the spirit”, this paradox has fascinated me.

****1

Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

Nahoko Gotoh, 6th January

Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.

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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”.