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Aquatic favourites from Maurice Steger and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

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“like rolling out a string of fine pearls”
Reviewed at Festhalle, Viersen on 5 April 2021
Handel, Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348 (I.-II.)
Vivaldi, Concerto for flute, oboe, violin and bassoon in F major, RV 570 "La tempesta di mare"
Handel, Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348 (III.-VI.)
Geminiani, Concert no. 7 in D minor
Handel, Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348 (VII.-XI.)
Handel, Water Music, Suite no. 3 in G major, HWV 350
Telemann, Concerto for Recorder in C major, TWV 51:C1
Handel, Water Music, Suite no. 2 in D major, HWV 349
Maurice Steger, Recorder
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Leila Schayegh, Violin, Director
Highly polished Mozart from Freiburg Baroque in Melbourne
****1
Dionysian and Apollonian: René Jacobs conducts L'Orfeo in Berlin
*****
Light and shadows in Rattle and Sellars' Médée at Staatsoper Berlin
***11
Freiburg Baroque brings the Thames to Klosters
****1
Excellent revival of Claus Guth's Saul at Theater an der Wien
*****
Jacobs’ plausible pleading on behalf of Leonore
****1
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