Energy and showmanship in Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz's Mozart

Riccardo Minasi conducts Ensemble Resonanz

Clara-Jumi Kang and Timothy Ridout

By Nick Boston, 21 August 2024

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“a tour de force of energetic drive from beginning to end”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 20 August 2024

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: Overture

Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K364 (K320d)

Mozart, Duo in G major for Violin and Viola, K423

Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Overture

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

Mozart, Symphony no. 35 in D major, "Haffner”, K385 (Presto)

Clara-Jumi Kang, Violin

Timothy Ridout, Viola

Ensemble Resonanz

Riccardo Minasi, Conductor

Personal becomes political at MaerzMusik Berlin

Sam Johnstone, 22nd March

Aperghis’ migrants and a new arrangement of Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared by Schöllhorn were well-handled treatments of their subject matter, yet burdened by an overwrought conceptual framework.

***11

Mozart, Lachenmann and postmodern Beethoven from Ensemble Resonanz

Zwölftöner, 22nd May

The Ensemble Resonanz is a Hamburg-based contemporary chamber orchestra committed to finding bridges to modernism amid works from centuries past, and to that end this concert featured Helmut Lachenmann set alongside Mozart, and Beethoven’s Six Bagatelles rescored by Manuel Hidalgo.

***11

Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium als Hausmusik in St. Pauli

Michael Klier, 25th December

Ein swingender Konzertabend, der Mut machte, Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium einmal selbst im häuslichen Kreis zu musizieren.

****1

Atemberaubender Protest aus der Elbphilharmonie

Sarah Schnoor, 18th January

Krieg, Kälte, Tod: Beim Konzert des Ensemble Resonanz mit Asmik Grigorian stockt einem der Atem.

****1

Aperghis komponiert über das Verschwinden für das Ensemble Resonanz

Michael Klier, 15th November

Mit migrants will Aperghis angesichts der Flüchtlingsschicksale in Europa nicht nur an die Toten erinnern, „sondern auch den Lebenden ein Gesicht geben“.

*****

Saisonfinale mit Bach und Hosokawa

Isabel Schubert, 14th June

Das Ensemble Resonanz beendet seine Saison mit zwei Brandenburgischen Konzerten von Johann Sebastian Bach und Werken von Toshio Hosokawa.

***11

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Nick Boston

Nick has an MA in Music, specialising in performance and repertoire. His particular passions are choral music, chamber music and opera, with a particular interest in early music. He sings in a number of choirs in the south east of England, plays the piano and occasionally dusts off the violin. He writes about music here.

Energy and showmanship in Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz's Mozart at the Proms