St Matthew Passion with the London Handel Festival

By Capriccio, 07 April 2012

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Reviewed at St George's, Hanover Square, London on 6 April 2012

Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Laurence Cummings, Conductor

London Handel Orchestra

Adrian Butterfield, Leader

Nathan Vale, Evangelist

George Humphreys, Jesus Christ

Anna Devin, Soprano

Emilie Renard, Mezzo-soprano

Edward Grint, Bass

Choir of St George's

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Nick Boston, 14th March

A glorious Esther from Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Singers and Orchestra, with a classy line-up of soloists led by Nardus Williams and Tim Mead.

****1

La Resurrezione brings London Handel Festival to an uplifting close

Nahoko Gotoh, 18th April

On Easter Monday, this year's London Handel Festival came to a close with Handel's youthful oratorio La Resurrezione in the suitably Baroque setting of London's St Martin-in-the-Fields.

****1

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Sandra Bowdler, 5th April

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****1

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The evening’s most unbuttoned applause was reserved for two native anglophone artists, countertenor Patrick Terry and bass-baritone Michael Mofidian.

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Berenice at the Linbury: Handel meets Gilbert and Sullivan

David Karlin, 27th March

Visual eye candy, excellent singing and superb Handelian playing by Laurence Cummings and the London Handel Orchestra are marred by poor diction and limited acting expressivity.

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Capriccio

Capriccio is a musician and writer living in London. He has a particular interest in opera and music of the twentieth century and enjoys exploring the obscurer recesses of the repertoire. He blogs here.