Richard Egarr and the AAM at Robeco Zomerconcerten

By Rutger Muller, 05 July 2012

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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 3 July 2012

Handel, Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3 No.2, HWV 313

Vivaldi, In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626

Albinoni, Concerto à 5 for 2 oboes in C major, Op.9 no.9

Handel, Silete venti, HWV 242

Purcell, King Arthur, Z 628: suite

Purcell, Oedipus: Music for a While, Z 583 no.2

Handel, Samson, HWV 57: Let the bright Seraphim

Handel, Sonata a 5 in B flat major, HWV 288

Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga

Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Tornami a vagheggiar

Academy of Ancient Music

Richard Egarr, Conductor

Lisa Larsson, Soprano

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Mark Pullinger, 26th March

Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

***11

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

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Rutger Muller

A masters student in music technology from Amsterdam, Rutger searched for peculiarly beautiful sounds in experimental electronic music, and later learned to appreciate the acoustic sounds of contemporary classic music. He's always on the look-out for new music that can instantly captivate him.