Prom 73: Crisp and breezy late night Handel

By Nahoko Gotoh, 11 September 2016

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“so many rubatos and slides that it verged on a parody of early 20th-century Baroque playing”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 8 September 2016

Handel, Zadok the Priest, HWV 258: God save the King

Handel, Coronation Anthem no. 3: My heart is inditing, HWV 261

Muffat, Armonico Tributo: Sonata no. 5 in G major

Handel, Coronation Anthem no. 4: Let thy hand be strengthened; HWV 259

Bach, Air on a G String, from Orchestral Suite BWV1068 ( arr. L. Stokowski)

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Z 626: Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth" (arr. L. Stokowski)

Handel, The King shall rejoice, HWV 265

Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, Conductor

Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

Stephen Pritchard, 12th February

Tenor Ed Lyon fulfils a long-held ambition to sing Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals, conducted by his former teacher, Laurence Cummings at Milton Court.

*****

Strong team for a Good Friday St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 18th April

The greatest music of the 18th century – no arguments, please – is given a fine reading at London's Barbican.

****1

Academy of Ancient Music delivers a majestic Messiah

Charlotte Gardner, 16th December

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican.

****1

Actéon and Pygmalion: three transformations for the price of two

Roy Westbrook, 9th October

Ovid’s Metamorphoses makes an ideal curtain-raiser to the Academy of Ancient Music's new season, with works by Charpentier and Rameau conducted by Laurence Cummings... who also sings!

****1

Academy of Ancient Music are inspired in Handel's Orlando

Roy Westbrook, 30th June

“A concert performance with neither scenery nor action would be a sacrilege,” wrote one authority of this opera. Nobody told the Academy of Ancient Music...

****1

Sons of England: a fresh look at English Baroque from the AAM

Susannah Moody, 30th May

Countertenor Reginald Mobley and the Academy of Ancient Music shine in an alternative history of English Baroque, with a new work by Roderick Williams.

****1

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.