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Prom 20: Gardiner masters Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette with the ORR

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 02 August 2016
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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 30 July 2016
Programme
Berlioz, Roméo et Juliette, choral symphony
Performers
Julie Boulianne, Mezzo-soprano
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Tenor
Laurent Naouri, Baritone
Monteverdi Choir
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
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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”.