Ad Parnassum and L'Offerta Musicale di Venezia: Dido and Aeneas

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 28 September 2012

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

Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

Maria-Lisa Geyer, Director

Roberto De Gregori, Choreography

Ad Parnassum

L'Offerta Musicale di Venezia

Miranda Heldt, Dido

Mark Spyropoulos, Aeneas

Naomi Kilby, Belinda

Krysia Mansfield, Sorceress

Rosie Lomas, Soprano

Aglaia Maria Mika, Mercury

Sebastian Charlesworth, Baritone

Zanetto and Gianni Schicchi: Opera Holland Park's Florentine Double Bill

Francesca Vella, 22nd June

After their Mascagni debut last year, with L’amico Fritz (the composer’s first post-Cavalleria opera), Opera Holland Park have set out to uncover more music from the so-called ‘one-hit-wonder’ – still known to most for his smash verismo opera alone.

***11

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

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Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic’s measured Mahler 6

SangKwon Lee, 19th March

That last movement proves the evening’s true point of reckoning in the Seoul Philharmonic's performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Lotte Concert Hall.

****1

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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”.