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Revealing a remarkable talent: Solomon's Knot explore the Sacred Songs and Anthems of 17th century composer George Jeffreys
[…] and a chamber organ."The first disc features Jeffreys' sequence of five-voice anthems which cycle over the Church year. These are mostly early compositions, with largely anonymous poetical texts (though one uses George Herbert). The second disc features four-voice anthems described by Jeffreys as 'Songs of 4. Parts For the Church', these set largely sacred texts culled from the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.The music is performed by the eight singers of Solomon's Knot, Zoë Brookshaw and Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, soprano, James Laing and Kate Symonds-Joy, alto, Thomas Herford and Andrew Tortise, tenor Alex Ashworth and Jonathan Sells, bass with theorbo and organ, performing one voice to a part. Throughout they perform with flexibility, freedom and virtuosity, this is rightly given as music for a virtuoso vocal consort rather than solos with large choral ensemble. The result has a compelling vividness that makes the music really sing. That the performers have experience […]
2022-01-25 09:26:15
Love, jealousy, death and a wedding: Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Aurora Sanseverino who commissioned Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemoby Francesco Solimena Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo; Zoe Brookshaw, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Trevor Bowes, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Steven Devine; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Handel's earlier, Italian version of the Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus story in an engaging performance full of character, swagger and pathosHandel spent most of 1708 in Rome, but during June and July of that year he made an expedition South to Naples where his serenata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo was premiered. We don't know that much about the circumstances of this first performance; the work seems to have been commissioned by Aurora Sanseverino, Duchess of Laurenzano, for the marriage of her niece to the Duke of Alvito. The Duchess was a great patron of the arts, ran a famous salon in Naples and was an […]
2021-12-28 15:55:07
Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz The Christmas Story; Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 December 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★) Schütz's music for Christmas alongside that of his contemporaries, in an evening full of wonder and joy, vivid colours and amazing musical textures and timbresWe don't hear anything like enough music by Heinrich Schütz, so it was doubly welcome that Arcangelo (artistic director Jonathan Cohen) and Wigmore Hall decided to herald Christmas with a glorious sequence of Heinrich Schütz's music on Friday 23 December 2021. The second half was devoted to Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story) whilst the first half was a sequence of Christmas motets by Schütz and Michael Praetorius with instrumental music from Johann Verdanck and Johann Hermann Schein. A very full Wigmore Hall platform featured singers Miriam Allan and Zoe Brookshaw (sopranos), Alexander Chance (alto), Laurence Kilsby, Nicholas Mulroy, Guy Cutting (tenors), […]
2020-10-05 09:04:21
Bach, contentment and our perception of time: the OAE and Dr Fay Dowker at Kings Place
Audience and chorus practice those arm movementsthe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Kings Place (Photo Kings Place) Bach, Byrd, Kirnberger, Roman; Zoe Brookshaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Steven Devine; Kings Place Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 04 October 2020 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A delightfully dancing Bach cantata and a talk on our perception of time and how it affects the General Theory of Relativity made for a highly engaging Sunday morningBach, the Universe and Everything, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's monthly series combining a Bach cantata with a thought-provoking scientific lecture, continued this Summer without and audience. But, on Sunday 4 October 2020, audiences returned to Kings Place for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's latest instalment of Bach, the Universe and Everything, which combined Bach's cantata Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke BWV 84, directed by […]
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