Monteverdi meets Stravinsky: Old and new at the Wigmore Hall

By Madelaine Jones, 09 July 2012

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Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 7 July 2012

Marini, Passacaglia, Op.22

Monteverdi, Tempro la cetra

Monteverdi, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Gesualdo, Madrigali a cinque voci, libro quinto: Dolcissima mia vita

Gesualdo, Madrigali a cinque voci, libro sesto: Beltà, poi che t'assenti

Gesualdo, Asciugate i begli occhi

Stravinsky, Cantata

Angelika Kirchschlager, Mezzo-soprano

Ian Bostridge, Tenor

The English Concert

Harry Bicket, Director, Harpsichord

A radically trad Fidelio at Garsington

Peter Quantrill, 27th June

Simple solutions prove the best in Beethoven's "problem" opera as John Cox's staging is revived at Garsington.

****1

Ravishing Rodelinda: Handel al fresco at Garsington Opera

Roy Westbrook, 13th June

Ruth Knight untangles Handel's Rodelinda, directing a new staging at Garsington which features a feast of fine singing.

****1

Rameau meets The Kardashians: Platée at Garsington

David Karlin, 29th May

A superb orchestral performance from Paul Agnew and The English Concert lights up a breezy and fun staging of Rameau's ballet bouffon.

***11

Handel's Brockes Passion resurrected by The English Concert

Roy Westbrook, 27th March

The London Handel Festival offers a chance to hear rarely performed music for Passiontide, with Harry Bicket conducting the English Concert.

****1

Heavenly Bach from Iestyn Davies at the BBC Proms

Leighton Jones, 25th August

With two cantatas for solo alto bookending the Third Brandenburg Concerto, The English Concert bewitches in this late-night all Bach programme.

****1

Top Mozart from Kristian Bezuidenhout and The English Concert

Mark Thomas, 7th June

A scintillating account of an all-Mozart programme at St Martin-in-the-Fields with a mighty concerto, a mightier symphony and one of his more unusual overtures.

*****

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Madelaine Jones

Madelaine is a pianist and writer studying at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. As a winner of the Gladys Puttick Improvisation Competition as part of a dance-piano duo, she has an active interest in cross-arts collaboration. Visit here to find out more.