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2021-12-13 06:00:06
[…] in Ely Cathedral, and have a single date in Barcelona this week, which presumably counts as a European tour post-Brexit. L’Enfance du Christ is full of Berlioz’s characteristic mood swings and grand, colourful gestures: it’s an oratorio that sounds as though it desperately wants to be an opera, perfect for the characterful period winds and brass of Gardiner’s orchestra and for the top-flight cast of soloists he had assembled here. Michael Spyres’s glowing Narrator, Ann Hallenberg’s beatific Mary and Lionel Lhote’s desperate yet noble Joseph – it would have been good to hear more of all three, but Berlioz doesn’t put the spotlight squarely on any one soloist. The smaller roles were taken by singers from the choir; Alexander Ashworth made especially vivid work of the Ishmaelite who takes the family in.
2021-12-12 13:55:08
St Martin-in-the-Fields, LondonJohn Eliot Gardiner assembles top-flight soloists as his Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique take on Berlioz A stone’s throw from the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in the National Gallery, you can see what the old Flemish painters made of the story of the holy family’s flight into Egypt. Here, with John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique giving their first concert in their new home venue, you could hear Berlioz’s take on it. L’Enfance du Christ is full of Berlioz’s characteristic moodswings and grand, colourful gestures: it’s an oratorio that sounds as though it desperately wants to be an opera, perfect for the characterful period winds and brass of Gardiner’s orchestra and for the top-flight cast of soloists he had assembled here. Michael Spyres’s glowing Narrator, Ann Hallenberg’s beatific Mary and Lionel Lhote’s desperate yet noble Joseph – it would have been good […]
2021-09-03 06:28:50
Quite an occasion: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts early Handel and Bach for his 60th appearance at the BBC Proms
Handel: Dixit Dominus - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner - BBC Proms (Photo Chris Chris Christodoulou/BBC) Handel, Bach; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Ann Hallenberg, Sir John Eliot Gardiner; BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 September 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Dazzling chorus work, superb team musicianship and the largest choir we've heard live for monthsSir John Eliot Gardiner first conducted Handel's Dixit Dominus at the BBC Proms in 1974, a date when many of the singers in his current Monteverdi Choir were almost certainly not born. He returned to the Royal Albert Hall for his his 60th appearance at the BBC Proms on Wednesday 1 September 2021 for a programme which combined Handel's Dixit Dominus with two other works from the same period, Handel's motet Donne che in ciel, with mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg, and Bach's first surviving church cantata Christ […]
2021-04-04 09:44:38
A Life On-Line: Passions from Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
[…] won't bore you with, which meant that I was relieved to have such a wide variety of performances to choose from. We watched Bach's St John Passion which was broadcast live from the Swedish Radio concert hall, Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. In Sweden, Bach's St John Passion was first performed in 1898 conducted by William Stenhammer. Here Daniel Harding conducted the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir with Julia Kleiter (soprano), Ann Hallenberg (alto), Andrew Staples (Evangelist and tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), and Matthew Rose (Christus). This was a strong cast with singers experienced both in Bach and in later repertoire. There was no audience, this was for the cameras and the microphones, and the visual element was directed by Andrew Staples. There was no quasi operatic element, but lighting and camera work emphasised the work's drama. This was a medium-sized event, the size of the forces […]
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